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Title
Men constructing a bulwark o the Colorado River, ca.1903
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
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 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
Identifier
chs-m20987
USC-1-1-1-14306 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46501
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20987
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46501.jpg
Subject
Natural features--Rivers--Colorado River
Rivers
Dam sites
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
USA
rivers: Colorado River
Source
46501 [Accession number]
CHS-46501 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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