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Title: Colliding Trains at California State Fair
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: A staged locomotive collision at the California State Fair. Track is laid on the racetrack and two locomotives collide in a violent spectacle. “Locomotive Collision Spectacles” were popular attractions at the California State Fair in the 1910s and 1920s. Taken circa 1913.
Type: image
Identifier: PH-2020-08
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/4227
Subject: California State Fair
Railroad Locomotives
Racetracks (Horse Racing)
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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