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 the "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroads, showing a man with a large hammer at center, 1926. The crowd has formed a circle on the railroad tracks with a short, elderly man in a suit holding a large hammer at center. he crowd is looking towards the foreground and appear to be posing for the photograph. People stand on the trains which sit on the left and right. The crowd continues to the trees in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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