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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of "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 the crowd moving towards the center, 1926. A train stands on the left and another on the right with the crowd standing in front of them. The crowd moves towards the center space between the two trains. They are finely dressed with most of them in suits and dresses but several dressed in cowboy costumes. A man dressed as a Native American stands on the train on the left with an elderly man in a suit just in front of him. Several woman stand on the train on the right. Boys watch the festivities from a small 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
36750 [Accession number] CHS-36750 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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