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File:A train of the Southern Pacific Railroad passing over a trestle and into a snow shed in the mountains, California, ca.1909 (CHS-5696).jpg

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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
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.
Call number: CHS-5696
Filename: CHS-5696
Coverage date: circa 1909
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Cisco
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5696
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5696.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): railroad features
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1909
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Geographic coordinates: 39.313831,-120.561922
Legacy record ID: chs-m17452
Geographic subject: mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Placer
Subject (lcsh): Railroads; Mountains
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Date circa 1909
date QS:P,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17447
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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