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 a view of Engine 38 and costumed men, showing a crowd of onlookers, at the recreation of the completion of the Southern Pacific's Los Angeles-San Francisco line at Lang Station in Soledad Canyon, September 5, 1926. A train pulled by Engine 38 sits in the background of the image, facing toward the right. Men stand in rows along the edges and roofs of its cars, including a man dressed as a Native American. A dense crowd fills the foreground, while trees and hills are visible in the background. Picture file card reads "Recreation of the driving of the final spike on the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and San Francisco".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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