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Title
"Wedding of the rails", showing men shaking hands over the railroad tracks, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued
1926-09-05
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing men shaking hands over the railroad tracks, 1926. A crowd of men in suits stands on the left and another crowd on the right. Trains stand on the tracks behind them on either side. A short, elderly man in a suit stands at center between the two crowds and hammers a railroad spike into the tracks. Two sets of men, one in front of the short man and one behind him, shake hands over the site. Several women in fine dresses look on from the train on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11095
USC-2-1-1-11245 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36259
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11095
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36259.jpg
Subject
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
Rites and ceremonies
Historical reenactments
Anniversaries
Railroads
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California
Lang
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36259 [Accession number]
CHS-36259 [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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