"Wedding of the rails", showing men in costume on a train, 1926

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Title "Wedding of the rails", showing men in costume on a train, 1926

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 men in costume on a train, 1926. The crowd of finely-dressed people looks towards the right in the foreground while train number thirty-eight stands at center. Men dressed in suits, cowboy costumes and Mexican costumes stand on a platform of the train, one with a guitar in hand. The conductor peers out of a large window on the left while several men stand at the front of the train on the right. Trees stand in the background and hills stand in the distance.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1926-09-05

Subject Anniversaries (lcsh), Festivals -- Union Pacific and Southern Pacific (file heading), Historical reenactments (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Rites and ceremonies (lcsh), Southern Pacific Railroad Company (corporate name)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Lang (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1926-09-05

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11099

Identifier 36263 (accession number), CHS-36263 (call number), CHS-36263 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10524 (legacy record id), chs-m11099 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11249 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10524

Unique identifier UC140617

Legacy Identifier CHS-36263.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
42.0 cm × 33.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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