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Title
Train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, ca.1910
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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 a train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, California, ca.1910. Utility poles run adjacent to the tracks. The dry rocky mountain slope is sparsely dotted with boulders, shrubs and trees.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm.
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12114
USC-1-1-1-12267 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5030
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12114
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5030.jpg
Subject
Central Pacific Railroad
Railroads
Mountains
Snow
Transportation--Railroads--Northern California
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
Cisco
Placer
USA
Source
1-119-17 [Microfiche number]
5030 [Accession number]
CHS-5030 [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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