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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of horses attached to a winding apparatus at the construction of the Mount Lowe Railway, ca.1900. At center, six horses are shown on a cliff edge in groups of two, pulling the spokes of a wooden wheel in order to turn it. This apparatus apparently hoisted freight. Men, including one on the back of an eighth horse, can also be seen on the cliff. The railway was a project of Professor Thaddeus Lowe in the Moutains of Altadena.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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