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Two men pulling themselves across the Alamo River on a cable strung high above, ca.1910
Photograph of two men pulling themselves across the Alamo River on a cable strung high above, near Brawley, ca.1910. They are seated barely visible in the background in a small wooden swing hanging from one cable as the pull on a lower one. Two small boats are moored near the shore at center. The cable extends to a cliff at right where a small structure and several piles of supplies stand.
Call number: CHS-4285
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-4285
Coverage date: circa 1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4285
Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-4285.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Rivers -- Colorado River
Legacy record ID: chs-m16742; USC-1-1-1-14306
Geographic subject: rivers: Alamo River
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Imperial
Subject (lcsh): Bridges; Rivers; Rope; Boats and boating
Date circa 1910
date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16675
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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