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Description
"Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing a crowd behind the railroad tracks, 1926. The railroad tracks lie above a mound of jagged rocks in the foreground with a crowd of people dressed in costumes behind it. A young girl stands at center in a large, western-style dress, a feathered hat and a small umbrella at her side. The men around her are dressed in dark suits and top hats while a couple to her right are dressed as Native Americans. Boys watch the event from a wooden structure in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Rites and ceremonies Historical reenactments Anniversaries Railroads Southern Pacific Railroad Company Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California Lang Los Angeles USA
Source
36267 [Accession number] CHS-36267 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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