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English: Bulkhead holding slide ground at the West Portal, Chumstick tunnel, July 21, 1927   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Lee Pickett  (1882–1959)  wikidata:Q56802354
 
Description American photographer and independent insurance agent
Date of birth/death 1882 Edit this at Wikidata 1959 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Big Rapids
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q56802354
Title
English: Bulkhead holding slide ground at the West Portal, Chumstick tunnel, July 21, 1927
Description
English: Improvements made to the Chumstick Line between Winton and Peshastin for the Great Northern Railway Cascade Mountain crossing.

Caption on image: West Portal - showing bulkhead to hold slide ground on 45 degree side hill. Showing rock formation under top soil, G. N. Ry. Co. cutoff. A. Guthrie and Co. cont. 7-21-27. J. P. Anderson, supt. Pickett Photo Co. 3574

  • Subjects (LCSH): Bulkheads--Washington (State); Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)
Depicted place Washington (state)
Date Taken on 21 July 1927
Medium
English: glass, b/w
Dimensions height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm); width: 8.5 in (21.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,8.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
920
Source
English: Lee Pickett Photographs of Washington State
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The author died in 1959, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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PIC0917

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