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Photographs of Southern Pacific Railroad construction
Title
[Photographs of Southern Pacific Railroad construction].
Production
[California], [circa 1900]
Physical Description
16 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 8 x 8 cm, on mounts 13 x 13 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript annotations on versos in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Ron Lerner on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2016.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad route from Oxnard to Somis, California, circa 1900. Depicted are the surveying team, “headquarters” at Oxnard, and Mono men plowing the land. There are also photographs of a home and 2 of its residents encountered during survey work, as well as a sugar beet factory in Oxnard, well supplying water to the factory, and sugar beet field.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2019
References
Photographs of Southern Pacific Railroad Construction. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Photographs of Southern Pacific Railroad Construction. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
Occupation
Railroad construction workers California 20th century.
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