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Title
"Wedding of the rails", showing the crowd gathered on the tracks, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued
1926-09-05
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroads, showing the crowd gathered on the tracks, 1926. One woman dressed in a Native American costume stands out against the crowd of women in floral dresses and men in suits and tall hats. The railroad tracks lie below their feet while the railroad car stands on the left. Young boys watch the festivities from the roof of a small structure in the background on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11085
USC-2-1-1-11235 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36746
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11085
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36746.jpg
Subject
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
Rites and ceremonies
Historical reenactments
Anniversaries
Railroads
Southern Pacific Railroad
Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California
Lang
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36746 [Accession number]
CHS-36746 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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