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Title
People standing along the profile of a locomotive engine at the 50th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Lang Station, September 5, 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 people standing along the profile of a locomotive engine at the 50th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Lang Station, September 5, 1926. A barbed wire fence is visible in the foreground while a small dirt hill leads up to train tracks with an engine and two cars attached. A small crowd of people gather on the right while they face the engine. A man can be seen inside the engine window while mountains are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20452
USC-1-1-1-10670 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33025
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20452
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33025.jpg
Subject
Central Pacific Railroads
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads
Rites and ceremonies
Anniversaries
Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California
Lang
Los Angeles
USA
canyons: Soledad Canyon
Source
1-119-79 [Microfiche number]
33025 [Accession number]
CHS-33025 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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