Image / Two women with fireworks beside a Southern Pacific Railroad engine, ca.1930s–1940s

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Title: Two women with fireworks beside a Southern Pacific Railroad engine, ca.1930s–1940s
Contributor: Los Angeles as Subject
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1930/1949
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: 3900 West Chevy Chase Drive, MS 656-3, Los Angeles, CA 90039-1221
Travel Town Museum
telephone 213-485-5520; fax 818-243-0041; http://www.cityofla.org/RAP/grifmet/tt/index.htm
traveltown@rap.lacity.org
Description: Photograph of two women posing with fireworks beside a Southern Pacific Railroad engine, ca.1930s–1940s. The engineer in the the cab plugs his ears. This is engine 2485.
Type: image
Format: photographs
Identifier: exbt-m156
exbt-LAS-20
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m156
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-LAS-20.jpg
Subject: Locomotives
Time Period: circa 1930/1949
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: item no: 20 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Library Exhibits Collection
Visual and Virtual Paths to L.A. Community Archives and Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Fall 2002
exbt-m36
Provenance: Travel Town Museum, Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles (Emil Besse Collection)

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