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Description
Photograph of "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing three men and a woman in costume, 1926. The woman stands at center in a lightly-colored, western-style dress with a dark umbrella over her shoulder and feathers in her hair. The men to the immediate right and left of her wear matching dark suits with long jackets, lightly-colored shirts, canes and top hats. The woman smiles as she looks to the right where an elderly man stands in a dark jacket and a conductor's hat. The crowd stands behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Rites and ceremonies Historical reenactments Anniversaries Railroads Southern Pacific Railroad Company Parks
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California Lang Los Angeles USA
Source
36264 [Accession number] CHS-36264 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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