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Title
[California State Fair, Locomotive Collision Spectacle] (2 views)
Contributor
McCurry Foto Co
Sacramento History Online: 2001-2002
Date Created and/or Issued
1913-1917
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (2002-0052). View of two locomotives at point of impact, smoke blowing from stacks and surrounding collision point; grandstands and people behind at right. (Lower right of photo missing, does not interfere with scene.). "Head collision McCurry" - handwritten on front -- view 2 (2002-0053). View of trains in collision with smoke billowing in left half of image, obscuring second locomotive; grandstand and people behind at right.
Also have negatives: no. GL245 (8x10 in. glass, lower right broken), no. 20,710 (4x5 in.) for 2002-0052; and, no. GL238 (8x10 in.) for 2002-0053.
From McCurry Photograph Collection.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographs ; 8 x 9 7/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001564715CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
California State Fair and Exposition--Photographs
Railroad locomotives--California--Sacramento
Fairs--California--Sacramento
Events--California--Sacramento
Grandstands--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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