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Title
View of Engine 38 and costumed men at a recreation of the completion of the Southern Pacific Line, September 5, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued
1926-09-05
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a view of Engine 38 and costumed men at the recreation of the final spike on Southern Pacific's Los Angeles-San Francisco line at Lang Station in Soledad Canyon, September 5, 1926. Engine 38 sits in the left centerground of the image, facing an engine numbered 2-26 which sits in the right centerground. Several men, including one who is dressed as a Native American, stand on Engine 38
onlookers also stand on the other train, looking down toward the tracks. The hats of a crowd fill the foreground, while trees are visible in the background. Picture file card reads "Recreation of the driving of the final spike on the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and San Francisco".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10520
USC-1-1-1-10664
USC-1-1-1-10668 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31101.5
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10520
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31101.5.jpg
Subject
Festivals--Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads
Rites and ceremonies
Anniversaries
Southern Pacific Railroads
Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California
Lang
Los Angeles
USA
canyons: Soledad Canyon
Source
1-119-86 [Microfiche number]
31101.5 [Accession number]
CHS-31101.5 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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