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 an intake pier in the Salton Sea, eight miles below Yuma, 1906. What appears to be parallel train trestles can be seen standing in the water on the left with the skeletal, wooden pier standing parallel on the right. Logs and discarded debris float on the surface of the water between them and boxes are piled on the trestles further back. Three barge-mounted pile drivers stand at their ends along a dirt hill which extends through the water across the background. A fourth pile driver stands on a small dock in the water on the right with a large, lightly-colored steamboat visible behind it. In the extreme background, the Pilot Knob mountain can be seen. Although the title reads "eight mile below Yuma", the south-eastern shore of Salton Sea is about 140 miles north-west of Yuma, AZ.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 16 x 21cm. photographic prints photographs
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