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Title
Railroad track on east side of the Salton Sea, showing a drainage system running diagonal to it, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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 railroad track on east side of the Salton Sea, showing a drainage system running diagonal to it, ca.1910. The tracks are shown at right, leading into the distance, while at right, a small hump of earth runs diagonal to the tracks stopping just at the line of utility poles that follows to the left of the tracks. Just left of center, a rectangular arrangement of posts can be seen.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
10 x 16 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12061
USC-2-1-1-12213 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43680
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12061
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43680.jpg
Subject
Railroads--Track
Building
Transportation--Railroads--General
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
Riverside
USA
Source
43680 [Accession number]
84-1-2158 [Microfiche number]
CHS-43680 [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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