Frank made his name by melding Walker Evans's incisive social documentation with Henri Cartier-Bresson's eye for the telling moment caught on the fly; he wielded this unified technique in the service of a particularly soulful vision that permeates his imagery with melancholy and is most eloquently inscribed in his great book, The Americans (1959). This photograph appeared in Fortune magazine, November 1955, in an article written by Evans on the Pennsylvania Railroad's clubby afternoon train, the Congressional, which ran express between New York and Washington. In a suite of images of businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists scheming, drinking, and having their shoes shined in the train's lounge, Frank focused on the rituals and details that convey not only the social gist of the situation but, even as importantly, its undercurrent mood. These photographs provide a rare glimpse of America's power elite fed by the spoils of the country's wartime success and at ease in their mobile boardroom en route to and from the nation's capital.