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Title
Traction steam engine hauling borax, ca.1900-1904
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900/1904
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 traction steam engine hauling borax, ca.1900-1904. The wheels are made of iron(?). Two women wearing dresses are sitting on the engine near the boiler. Three men, including the driver, are sitting on the conveyance further back. Another man is standing on the dirt road behind. There are barren rocky embankments on both sides.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11152
USC-1-1-1-11302 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1407
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11152
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1407.jpg
Subject
Industry--Borax (salt)
Salt industry and trade
Salt lakes
Borax mines and mining
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1900/1904
Place
California
USA
Source
1-104-2 [Microfiche number]
1407 [Accession number]
CHS-1407 [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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