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Chinese workers clearing snow from railroad tracks, 1886
Chinese workers clearing snow from railroad tracks, 1886
TitleChinese workers clearing snow from railroad tracks, 1886
PhotographerUnknown
Date1886
NotesPossibly on the tracks of the Northern Pacific Railroad

On verso of image: Heavy snowfall sometimes buried tracks so deep that rotory snow plows could not operate. Then it was necessary to employ shovel gangs to clear tracks. This photo shows (a) group of Chinese coolies on the switchback near the summit of the Cascades, in 1886.
Subjects (LCTGM)Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State); Railroad construction workers--Washington (State); Snow--Washington (State)
Subjects (LCSH)Chinese--Washington (State)
ConceptsImmigrants
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)
Digital CollectionSociety and Culture Collection
Order NumberSOC0049
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Negative NumberUW552
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionSocial Issues Collection
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001.
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