- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Work Extra #1602, Woodland, Talbot County, Georgia, 1907]
- Date of Original:
- 1907
- Subject:
- Railroad bridges--Georgia--Woodland
Railroads--Trains
Railroads--Georgia--Woodland
African Americans--Georgia--Woodland
Business--Georgia--Woodland
Transportation--Georgia--Woodland - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Talbot County, 32.69949, -84.53301
United States, Georgia, Talbot County, Woodland, 32.78736, -84.56187 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- "Woodland, 1907. Work Extra #1602 (train name) A.B. & A. Railroad. Ledgerwood is the Engine name (Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic R.R.) Note cars dumping dirt around tressel, dirt came from a large steam shovel. R.R. tressel is 96 ft. high built with pine poles with bark on them. The culvert is 21 ft. from the water to the top of circle crown, the crew worked 3 months filling with dirt. The tressel is several hundred feet long. Only a short portion is shown in the photo. Tressel is 3 miles East of Manchester, Ga. People in photo: Left to Right: E.J. Flowers (telegraph operator & conductor), L.L. Lee (flagman), L.C. Giles (Foreman), W.H. Giles (Flagman)-colored laborer, on Ledgerwood: Geo. Taylor (fireman, running Ledgerwood) W.B.C. Lampion (Engineer). "--from field notes
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_tlb008
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:tlb008
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
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- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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