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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Distant photograph of two surveyors standing in the bottom of a wide ditch created by a washout of the Southern Pacific Railroad near San Dimas. The tunnel view of the ditch is widest along the bottom edge of the frame and recedes into the distance at center. Tall earthen walls line either side of the ditch. About halfway down the ditch, a surveyor stands next to his equipment at center. Another surveyor stands off to the left and leans against the dirt wall of the ditch. Lumber rests propped up against the ditch in the foreground at left. A fence lines the top of the ditch at right and utility poles line the top of the ditch at left. Text from negative sleeve: 1171. San Dimas, California, about 1899. Three views of a very bad washout of the S.P.R.R. railroad between Bassett and Covina Couple S.P. surveyors down in the washed out roadbed, but cannot identify them. 3 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1171_001 ark:/21198/zz002hshm5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Ditches--California--San Dimas Surveying--California--San Dimas Erosion--California--San Dimas Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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