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Call Number	CHS.X5717
Title	W.P.C.D. powder car
Creator(s)	Zellers, Bob.
Summary	A worker holds sticks of dynamite removed from a cart containing explosives at the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. The man wears work overalls and a cap. A crate of blasting powder sits on the ground nearby.
Date	[between 1930 and 1950?]
Notes	Accession number: 88.442.157; History Colorado.; Handwritten on envelope: "WPCD powder car."; Number inked on negative: "3438."; Title penciled on envelope.; R7200057172
Physical Description	1 negative : nitrate ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)
Is Part Of	History Colorado, Zellers collection
Subject	Colorado-Big Thompson Project (U.S.)--People--1930-1950.; Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Explosives--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1950.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	nitrate negatives.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	88.442.157
Filename	20005717.TIF
CONTENTdm number	12048