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People responding to and helping after an avalanche hit a train Item Info

Title:
People responding to and helping after an avalanche hit a train
Creator:
Tabor's Photo Service, Wallace Idaho
Date Created (Archival Standard):
26 February 1936
Description:
Photo of several groups of people standing in deep snow. Some people seem to be trying to dig out covered train cars that were hit by an avalanche on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Trees can be seen knocked down by the snow slide in the background, and there are many shovels sticking out of the snow throughout the area. Other photos of the accident say that three people died.
Subjects:
anonymous people snow (precipitation) avalanches natural disasters trees shovels trains (vehicle groupings)
Location:
Wallace, Idaho
Latitude:
47.62743724
Longitude:
-115.8573828
Source:
PG 83, George W. Tabor Photographs, 1890-1963
Finding Aid:
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv538451
Source Identifier:
pg83-b02-f18-002_022
Box Number:
2
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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"People responding to and helping after an avalanche hit a train", George W. Tabor Photographs, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/tabor/items/tabor1122.html
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