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A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909
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A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909
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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.
Asset Metadata
Title
A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909
Subject
Mountains
(lcsh),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads
(lcsh),
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Cisco
(city or populated place),
mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada
(geographic subject),
Placer
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1909
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1909
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17452
Identifier
5696 (
accession number
), CHS-5696 (
call number
), CHS-5696 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17447 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17452 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17447
Unique identifier
UC142512
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5696.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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