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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 winds as it recedes into the distance at center. Tall earthen walls line either side of the ditch. The ditch extends back slightly towards the left and curves to the right. It appears to curve left again further in the distance. In the near distance, a piece of surveying equipment stands at center atop a tripod. Beyond it, a surveyor stands at center and another surveyor stands off to the left and next to the dirt wall of the ditch. Above the man at left, remnants of the train tracks are visible hanging just over the edge of the ditch. In the far distance, a windmill stands at center, rising above the far wall of the ditch. 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
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1171_002 ark:/21198/zz002hshnp
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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