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Title
Train travels on Mammoth Wharf
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
ca 1890
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Image reproduced October 7, 1937.
View of the original wharf at Santa Monica, built by the Santa Fe Railroad circa 1880, when this was the Port of Los Angeles. A train is traveling on the wharf.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00065402
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1778 4x5
CARL0000069591
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2728
Subject
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Railroad trains--California--Santa Monica
Railroads--California--Santa Monica
Wharves--California--Santa Monica
Shipment of goods--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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