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Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919

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Title: Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919
Date Created and/or Issued: 1919
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: Steam shovel digging path for San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line. Construction for the railway line was anticipated to be completed the afternoon of November 15, 1919. This photograph is similar to a photograph that appears with the article "GOLD SPIKE WILL MAKE RAIL DREAM TRUE.: John D. Spreckels to Drive it This Afternoon and Imperial's Steel Link with Tidewater Vision of Half a Century, will Become an Actuality; Road Cost Eighteen Million Dollars; Plan Week of Celebration. BUILDING OF SAN DIEGO AND ARIZONA RAILROAD TO BE FINISHED TODAY. COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILROAD TODAY; Service on San Diego-Arizona Line to Start December 1, When Week of Celebration Commences," Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1919: II1.
Text from negative sleeve: San Diego and Arizona Railroad.
Text from newspaper caption: Construction in Carrizo Gorge
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3725_G4132
ark:/21198/zz0002pn9z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Steam shovels
Railroads--Design and construction
San Diego & Arizona Railway
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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