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Title
Workers inside a building supplying refrigeration to freight cars, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
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 workers inside a building supplying refrigeration to frieght cars, ca.1920. To the right, two men can be seen attending to a forked set of wide pipe which is situated above what appear to be two orifices in what may be the roof of a freight car. A third man can be seen walking along wooden planks in the left distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12082
USC-2-1-1-12234 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43687
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12082
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43687.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Refrigerator cars
Transportation--Railroads--General
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
USA
Source
43687 [Accession number]
84-1-1775 [Microfiche number]
CHS-43687 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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