Plow digging cable ditches in California, United States, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Workers using plow attached to tractor to dig cable ditches. "Rome, 6/9/45--Plow digs cable ditches--Speeding installation of a war-urgent telephone line between Los Angeles and San Diego in the U.S. state of California is this specially designed rooter that plows cross-country, digging a deep ditch for the cable. This huge machine, towed by two big diesel tractors, precedes a cable trailer which lays the line in place and a bull-dozer that does the cover-up work. The rooter, which was designed and built by Post Brothers, Santa Ana, California, is 35 feet (11 meters) long, 10 feet (3 meters) high, 12 feet wide and weights 15 tons.--FF Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. 6533-4 (A List out)." California, United States. 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.603
Date: 
1945-09-
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Topical Subjects: 
Telecommunication cables--California
Tractors--California
Plows--California
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
California
Latitude: 
37.000
Longitude: 
-119.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Telecommunication cables--California
Tractors--California
Plows--California