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Title: Model locomotives at Pacific Southwest Exposition
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
C.A. Lehman, a Long Beach public school educator and model train maker, sits next to a display of model locomotives he personally constructed for the Pacific Southwest Exposition. They are, top row: Union Pacific engine #7500; 2nd row from top, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe locomotive; 3rd row from top, Southern Pacific Lines locomotive #3717; 4th row from top, left, Pennsylvania engine #1067 and, right, New York Central Lines engine # 1248; 5th row from top, left, C.M. & ST.P.R.R. engine #379 and two unlabeled engines; bottom row, left, Pioneer, C. & N.W.R.R. and two unlabeled engines. All the models ran under their own power.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077397
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-000-431.2 4x5
CARL0000079292
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111159
Subject: Pacific Southwest Exposition--(1928 :--Long Beach, Calif.)
Exhibitions--California--Long Beach
Locomotives--Models--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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