Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Railroad Work
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Sugimoto, Henry
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Title:
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Railroad Work
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Collection Title Date:
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1928-1990
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Date:
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ca. 1970
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Place of Origin/Discovery:
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New York, N.Y.
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Materials:
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oil on canvas
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Current Location:
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Japanese American National Museum
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Address:
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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Object ID:
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92.97.109
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Provenance:
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Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American
National Museum
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Object Type:
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Painting
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Heading:
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Inscription
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Notes:
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Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back: Japanese Immigration in America Series-- / "Railroad Work"
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Heading:
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Description
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Notes:
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Stretched and framed. Group of men laying railroad tracks. Train tracks run from lower left to midground right. At lower left, a man in blue overalls stands on the ballast with a pick resting against his stomach as he pauses in his work to drink from a grey container he lifts over his head. Across from him, in the foreground center with his back to the viewer, a man in blue overalls raises a hammer to strike a spike. Four men lay crossties under rail at upper part of tracks on ballast. Three of the four men wear blue overalls, the fourth wears jeans and a brown shirt. A bearded Caucasian man, visible from the shoulders up, faces the viewer in a white shirt and hat smoking a pipe in the lower right corner. Crossties lie stacked in midground left next to a man cooking over a fire. He is dressed in jeans, tan shirt, white apron and headband. There are two barrels next to the campfire, one covered by a board with seven blue cups atop. Three trees and two white tents stand behind him. A short distance to the right stands a sign, Goshen Junction. In the background, a broad expanse of open land where cattle graze is broken by a cluster of houses and trees on the right; a windmill; and a train leaving the town going west. A cluster of trees stands in front of a blue mountain range in the distance.
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Heading:
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Historical Note
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Notes:
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Goshen is a small town in California, located several miles from Hanford.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf6j49n8j9
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