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Title
Logging train loaded with logs, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 logging train loaded with logs for the mill sitting in a clearing in a mountain forest, ca.1900. The engine is hauling at least 6 cars. About a half a dozen men are standing next to or on the train. Steam rises from the boiler of the engine. The fuel box reads "S.L. Co. 2" on the side.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12168
USC-1-1-1-12321 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2020
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12168
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2020.jpg
Subject
Industry--Lumbering
Lumber
Forests and forestry
Wood products
Railroads
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-108-39 [Microfiche number]
2020 [Accession number]
CHS-2020 [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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