Image / Asian construction workers widening the toll road on Mount Wilson

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Title: Asian construction workers widening the toll road on Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906-12-19
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Asian construction workers widening the Mount Wilson toll road. The rock face, a rock retaining wall and shrubs are all visible. Also shown is several men carrying large rocks with ropes tied around them, as a method of transportation.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1330
29327
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1001
Subject: Road construction workers
Construction workers--United States
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Rocks
Rope
Coveralls
Roads--Design and construction
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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