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Icing cars on the Western Pacific at Portola, Cal. 3 tons ice to each car, record time - 27 cars in 57 minutes # 8

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Title: Icing cars on the Western Pacific at Portola, Cal. 3 tons ice to each car, record time - 27 cars in 57 minutes # 8
Contributor: Webb's Drug & Photo Supply Store
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1907 and 1914]
Publication Information: San Jose, Cal. : Webb's Drug & Photo Supply Store
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: PHOTO: RAILROADS: WESTERN PACIFIC
Removed from the C.W. Hendel Manuscript Collection
2009-1580.
View of workmen loading large ice blocks in "reefer" railroad cars (refrigerated cars).
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001394929CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Western Pacific Railroad Company
Ice industry--California--Portola
Railroad cars--California--Portola
Railroad employees--California--Portola
Portola (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Portola
Portola (Calif.)

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