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Description:
Southern Pacific conductor Jack Privitt at the rear of his coal train approaching the North Valmy Power Plant at Valmy, Nevada, on December 13, 1985. Privitt holds a portable radio. In the distance are the snow-covered mountains of the Sonoma Range. North Valmy, built in 1981, was the first coal-fired power plant in Nevada, and all its coal is shipped in by rail. Also see record 2412. |
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Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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Shirley Burman, Sacramento, California |
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Spatial, Valmy, Nevada; Temporal, December 13, 1985 |
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Creator Description:
Shirley Burman, a photographer and photo-historian, dropped out of high school in 1952 to join the Women Marines, where she found romance, was married, and ultimately became the mother of five children. In 1972, she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of California, David, and began a career as a photographer and illustrator. She collaborated on the book Whistle Across the Land (1983), has created two traveling exhibits about women in railroading, and is widely published. |
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| Collection: |
Shirley Burman Collection |
