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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the first dedicated fruit train leaving Los Angeles for the East with workers posed on top, Los Angeles, ca.1888. A crowd of workers stands on top of and around a locomotive fruit train, whose freight cars read "California Fast Freight Line" as well as "[...] Pacific Freight Car" where the first word has been edited out by scratching. Some workers on the coal car wave American flags while still more hang out the side window of the engineer's cabin. The caption below the image reads "Fruits for Eastern Tables--About 1888".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
California Fast Freight Line Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Transportation--Railroads--Early Days Fruit Railroads Flags Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-49-; 1-119-41 [Microfiche number] 6923 [Accession number] CHS-6923 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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