Two miners shaking hands after the completion of the San Jacinto tunnel, Banning, 1938

Title: Two miners shaking hands after the completion of the San Jacinto tunnel, Banning, 1938
Date Created: November 1938
Date: 1938-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: After much speculation and many setbacks, the water tunnel through the San Jacinto Mountains has finally been completed.
Two men in hard hats with open grins shake hands with each other: the one with the light-colored jacket is Ralph McFall, the other is unidentified.
Photograph appears with the article, "Blast Holes Through 13-Mile San Jacinto Water Tunnel," Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov 1938: 1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Ralph McFall, right, grins as he greets worker from "other side" as 13-mile San Jacinto tunnel was "holed" through yesterday after five years of arduous labor.
Handwritten on negative: 11- 21- 38
Text from negative sleeve: 15011 [mining? 11-21-38 doesn't seem to be what comes up in neg# search: Mayor Bowron Roger Jessup (Chairman of Board of Sups)

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: McFall, Ralph
Location: Banning (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Miners--California--Banning
Helmets
Shaking hands--California--Banning
San Jacinto Mountains (Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11746
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8k7q
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