Print, Photographic

1999.782.0231

1999.782.0231

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.782.0231

Description

Baggs Dixon pouring at Station 210. Carruth for Inland Construction Company, Nov. 1946. Update 2008: Black and white print. Snapshot . Image of machinery and equipment and canvas tent on a snow-covered field. Hills in background. Tent in center. Barrel with tubing at center right with large motorized pulley apparatus behind. Steam powered platform with tall stack at left; man standing near stack. Written on back in pencil: "S43(1) Baggs-Dixon pouring R.C.C.@ Stay 120+00- Carruth for Toland Constr. Co. Shooting live steam into gravel and sand piles. Nov 1946 K.H.O." Stamped on back in red ink: "981" Scalloped edges around image. Writing on back impacting emulsion throughout. Two vertical bends and cracks through center; lower edge torn at center in tow places-emulsion cracked. Emulsion cracked at top center. Paper yellowed and soiled on back.

Collection

Photograph Collection