Guide to the Billy Benton Photograph Collection
Record Group 038
Date processed: 6/29/2004
Processed By: M. Olliff
Repository Information
Archives of Wiregrass History & Culture
Troy State University Dothan
P.O. Box 8368
Dothan, AL 36304
Phone: 334-983-6556 x-327
E-mail: Archivist Dr. Martin T. Olliff <molliff@troy.edu>
Administrative Information
Accession Number 037-0619
Date Span 1949
Collection Size 1 digitized photograph
Biographical Sketch Billy Benton responded to an appeal made to the public by Dothan Landmarks Foundation seeking photographs to be included in the forthcoming _Railroading in Dothan and the Wiregrass_, a book in the "Images of Rail" series from Arcadia Press. He contributed one photograph of his father, an ACL section foreman, with his crew of section hands going to work via a motorized handcar.
Scope / Content Single photograph scanned digitally, of an ACL track crew (section gang) going to work, ca. 1949-1950
Access: Open per Donor Agreement
Inventory
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038-0619-001: Section crew traveling to work on a converted hand cart. L-to-R: Mr. Booth; Dewey Benton (foreman); Unidentified; Rabe Jackson; Unidentified. The vehicle had been converted from a hand cart by the addition of a motor, the flywheel of which could be reversed to propel the cart either direction on the track. This crew's section of track was in Dothan, abutting the Midland City Section. |