Image / Swan Wakefield, contractor, Claus and August Lindblom, 1904 - 1905

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Title: Swan Wakefield, contractor, Claus and August Lindblom, 1904 - 1905
Creator: Lundquist The Photographer (Turlock, Calif.); Lundquist, Jacob; Lundquist, Nels
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: A Lundquist photograph of three men identified as Swan Wakefield, a contractor, and brothers Claus and August Lindblom. The men pause to be photographed while roofing a building. While it is possible they actually worked wearing shirts and ties, presumably they dressed up for the photographers. Note the basic style of scaffolding that stretches across the width of the wall. Its only supports are the stack of wood shingles in the center and the cross boards nailed at each end of the wall. The building to the left is the Fairview Grammar School. Turlock's population rose in anticipation of irrigation water for the farmland and the school enrollment of 1902 went from 50 to 500.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 14 x 20 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc9js
cturs_136
Language: English
Subject: Construction industry--California--Turlock
Construction workers--California--Turlock
Schools--California--Turlock
Fairview Grammar School (Turlock, Calif.)
Lindblom, August
Lindblom, Claus
Wakefield, Swan
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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