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Title
Railroad trestle over a dry river bed, 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 a railroad trestle over a dry river bed, ca.1910. Spanning from left to the background is a wooden bridge-like structure over dry ground composed of dirt. A second, similar structure is obscured and visible from the extreme right foreground to the background. Trees are visible in the background. Photoprint reads: "Right of Way War", which indicates the setting is the King's River in Fresno County.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
14 x 9 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9470
USC-0-1-1-9607 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40113
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9470
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40113.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Irrigation
Rivers
Floods
Tents
Camping
Railroad tracks
Railroads
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
Fresno
USA
Source
1-110-75 [Microfiche number]
40113 [Accession number]
CHS-40113 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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