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Title: [California State Fair, Locomotive Collision Spectacle] (2 views)
Contributor: McCurry Foto Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1 (2016-1486) -- view 2 (2016-1481).
In 1917, the spectacle was staged by actress Helen Holmes and her Los Angeles Company. In this spectacle, Helen Holmes leaped from one of the trains, member of her Company from the other -- San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 7, 1917, pg. 4.
From McCurry Photograph Collection.
Also have negatives: no. GL244 for 2016-1486; and, no. GL236 for 2016-1481.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographs ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001564767CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: California State Fair and Exposition--Photographs
Railroad locomotives--California--Sacramento
Fairs--California--Sacramento
Events--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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