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Title: Chinese railroad workers near Lang
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1876
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A Southern Pacific Railroad handcar on which Chinese laborers are riding near Lang in 1876, where construction of the railroad between San Francisco and Los Angeles joined the two lines with a golden spike.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044400
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Railroads-Southern Pacific.; A-003-213 4x5
CARL0000047766
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101496
Subject: Southern Pacific Company
Railroads--California--Lang
Foreign workers, Chinese--California--Lang
Handcars--California--Lang
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Lang (Calif.)
Time Period: 1871-1880

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