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Paying a political bet, Nels Hultberg gives Claude Shafer a wheelbarrow ride down Main Street, circa 1910

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Title: Paying a political bet, Nels Hultberg gives Claude Shafer a wheelbarrow ride down Main Street, circa 1910
Creator: Ravnos, Ole
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1910
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: Nels Hultberg is pictured holding the handles of a wheelbarrow to give Claude Shafer a ride down Main Street. It is reported to be the payoff for losing a political bet. A crowd of men and boys on bicycles and horses and in cars and wagons gathered to watch the event. The name Vignolo Block can be seen on the building to the left. It contained both the Hotel Carolyn and the Turlock Land Company. Nels Hultberg was one of the owners of the latter and he was instrumental in drawing a large number of settlers to Turlock, beginning in 1903.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 19 x 25 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7c6028wt
cturs_078
Language: English
Subject: Crowds--California--Turlock
Central business districts--California--Turlock
Hotel Carolyn (Turlock, Calif.)
Hultberg, Nels
Shafer, Claude
Vignolo Building (Turlock, Calif.)
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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