Postcard

Name/Title

Postcard

Entry/Object ID

1995.913.244b

Description

Color panorama photo postcard of Southern Pacific engine #18 and tender parked at Dehy Park in Independence. There are vehicles and trailers visible in the background. Photo by Carlos Elmer, published by Columbia Wholesale Supply of Hollywood, and given ID #L-10 and/or #30544. Publisher's blurb on reverse: Old Number 18, Narrow Gauge Railroad Engine, built by Baldwin in 1911, steamed joyously though the Owens River Valley for many years, its whistle reverberating from the Inyos to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Number 18 now belongs to the Easttern California Museum Association, Independence, a gift of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Photograph Details

Subject Place

City

Independence

County

Inyo County

State/Province

California

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Elmer, Carlos

Role

Photographer