H69.459.1925

Supply Trains at End of Track, Last Siding
1868
9.875 HIGH x 12.8125 WIDE x 0.0625 DEEP
(25.08 HIGH x 0.16 DEEP)
Museum Purchase
H69.459.1925

"No ?4 [?4 is crossed out] 87 Supply Trains at End of track Last Siding" inscribed in emulsion along top edge.

Photograph. Title: No 87 Supply Trains at End of Track Last Siding (Scratched on negative) Image Description: See title. Men, Wagons, and animals in front of trains. Physical Description: "Imperial Plate" collodion glass negative, 10"X13". Sub. Cat.: Transportation -- Railroads Remarks: Photohraph made in vicinity of Piedmont, Wyoming, now a ghost town. (Information from Jim Dearden of Brigham Young University.)

"Supply trains would off-load supplies into wagons and the wagons would bring the materials to the construction crews grading parties farther west." Remarks per Glenn Willumson for the NEA Russell Grant, July 2013 - June 2015.

Public Domain Mark
This work (by Andrew J. Russell), identified by Oakland Museum of California, is free of known copyright restrictions.

Used: Union Pacific Railroad

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