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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 a man making an announcement from the railroad tracks, 1926. The man stands on the tracks at center in a dark suit and hat with a metal cone to his mouth to amplify his voice. The crowd stands on the other side of the tracks with many people in costume. A couple is dressed as Native Americans, a group next to them is dressed as Mexicans and the group on the left is dressed in western dresses and suits. Boys watch the reenactment from a small structure in the background on the right. Hills stand behind them in the distance.
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 Railroad features
Time Period
1926-09-05
Place
California Lang Los Angeles USA
Source
36261 [Accession number] CHS-36261 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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