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Title
A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1909
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 train of the Union Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909. Utility poles run almost parallel to the tracks at a distance to the right. The dry rocky mountain slope is sparsely dotted with boulders, shrubs and trees.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17452 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5696
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17452
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5696.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Mountains
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1909
Place
39.313831,-120.561922
California
Cisco
Placer
USA
mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada
Source
5696 [Accession number]
CHS-5696 [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
chs-m265

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