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Title
Edwin Powell Hubble, Grace Burke Hubble and an unidentified couple standing in front of a train
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Edwin Powell Hubble, Grace Burke Hubble and an unidentified couple in front of a train. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "Fire in munitions dump at entrance to St. Gotthard Tunnel disrupts RRY schedule. 1948". Everyone but Grace Hubble is wearing overcoats, and Edwin Hubble is the only one not wearing a hat. Edwin Hubble is holding a pipe in his left hand. The Saint Gotthard Tunnel is in Switzerland.
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
Black and white photograph; 10 x 14.5 cm (3.75 x 5.75 in.)
Identifier
HUB 1048 (10)
15210
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/221
Subject
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hubble, Grace Burke, d. 1980
Saint Gotthard Highway Tunnel (Switzerland)
Railroad tunnels--Switzerland
Coats
Tobacco pipes
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Saint Gotthard Highway Tunnel (Switzerland)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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