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Installation of telephone lines across Nevada.
BANC PIC 2001.124--fALBLOCAL
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Title:

Installation of telephone lines across Nevada

Creator/Contributor:

Shreeve, H. E., creator

Abstract:

Images of the landscape, line crews, camps, wagons, automobiles, trucks, machinery, and equipment as telephone poles and lines are installed across the Nevada desert. Signs visible indicate that the project was for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the Bell Telephone Co. of Nevada, and that it was part of a long distance line from San Francisco to New York. Identified locations include the vicinities of Sparks, Lovelock, Elko, the Humboldt River, and Tobar, Nevada. A few images of telephone poles being transferred from ship to railroad cars at an Oakland, Calif. wharf are included. Also of note are several views of an Indian encampment near Elko.

Date:

1914 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-nv
Telephone lines -- Nevada -- Design and construction -- Photographs
Deserts -- Nevada -- Photographs
Indians of North America -- Nevada -- Photographs
Manual work -- Photographs
Labor camps -- Nevada -- Photographs
Waterfronts -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Lignes téléphoniques -- Nevada -- Conception et construction -- Photographies
Déserts -- Nevada -- Photographies
Peuples autochtones -- Nevada -- Photographies
Travail manuel -- Photographies
Abris pour travailleurs -- Nevada -- Photographies
Fronts de mer -- Californie -- Oakland -- Photographies
Deserts
Indians of North America
Labor camps
Manual work
Telephone lines -- Design and construction
Waterfronts
Nevada -- Pictorial works
Nevada -- Ouvrages illustrés
California -- Oakland
Nevada
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company -- Pictorial works
Bell Telephone Company of Nevada -- Pictorial works
Bell Telephone Company of Nevada.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer(s) unknown. Possibly compiled by H.E. Shreeve of San Francisco, whose name is written inside front cover.
Detailed typescript captions describe each image.
Many images numbered in negative and on corresponding caption labels.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Landscapes (Representations)-Nevada.

Physical Description:

photoprint
1 album (590 photographic prints) : black and white ; album 25 x 41 cm, images chiefly 8 x 14 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2001.124--fALBLOCAL

Origin:

Nevada