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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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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. 
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Title A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 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) 
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 Send requests to address or e-mail given 
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 
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