Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a United States railroad gun in World War I, ca.1918. The railroad runs from the background at left to the foreground at right, and a set of empty tracks runs parallel in the foreground at left. The gun is a massive fourteen-inch naval gun mounted onto a large railroad car. The barrel reaches out over the car in front of the gun's car. The car at extreme right has a cargo of thick wooden beams, and the car to the left of that one bears a large canvas-covered box. Several words are visible and include, from left to right, "U.S.A.", "Wilson", and "USA 81".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 11 x 17 cm. photographic prints photographs
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