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 men constructing a bulwark o the Colorado River, ca.1903. Men in hats and overalls on the right shovel the rock debris that stands in piles along the right side of the metal tracks that ride over the wooden planks at center. Further down the tracks men spray the rocks with a hose while a ship labeled "Searchlight" approaches a second set of tracks on the far right. The water is smooth on the right beyond the developing bulwark and the water on the left reflects the pile of jagged rocks under the tracks. Dark trees line the far bank on the right while logs and cleared fields of dirt lie at the water's edge on the left with a faint mountain side in the background. Photoprint reads "Filling in Colorado Break. Cuny's Camp, Colorado River, California".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm. photographic prints photographs
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