The San Simon wash - an enormous gully, caaused by erosion, stretching for miles across New Mexico [undermining Santa Fe R.R. tracks] – Vintage Print
![The San Simon wash - an enormous gully, caaused by erosion, stretching for miles across New Mexico [undermining Santa Fe R.R. tracks], [between 1920 and 1930(?)] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/dd4f381f91a7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of The San Simon wash - an enormous gully, caaused by erosion, stretching for miles across New Mexico [undermining Santa Fe R.R. tracks] brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The San Simon wash - an enormous gully, caaused by erosion, stretching for miles across New Mexico [undermining Santa Fe R.R. tracks]
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The gully pictured here is the San Simon Wash in New Mexico, a huge erosion cut that the caption says stretches for miles and has undermined the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad. Arroyos like this were common across the arid Southwest in the early twentieth century, when heavy runoff, cleared grasslands, and overgrazing stripped soft ground and let storm water carve deep channels. The caption dates the photograph only tentatively, to sometime between 1920 and 1930, and the record comes from a documentary collection tied to Roy Stryker. Its clearest value lies in showing how a rail line could be threatened by a landscape that was changing faster than the railroad could repair it.
| Created / published | [between 1920 and 1930(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Roy E. Stryker Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.M.--San Simon Wash; Railroads; Erosion. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141470 |
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