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Title
Loading a train car with logs using a hoist and cable tackle, in a forest at Santa Cruz, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 three men loading a train car with logs using a hoist and cable tackle, in a forest at Santa Cruz, ca.1900. One man stands atop the pile of logs on the car, the other two stand on logs awaiting loading on the ground beside the car. An ax is buried in a small pile of little logs in the foreground. Two large stumps are visible in the background near a steam powered winch at left. The forest is in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
1 photoprint : photoprint, b&w
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16012
USC-1-1-1-14355 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3378
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16012
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3378.jpg
Subject
Santa Cruz County--Big trees
Trees
Redwood
Forests
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Santa Cruz
USA
Source
1-108-19 [Microfiche number]
3378 [Accession number]
CHS-3378 [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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