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Title
"Emigrant Train"
Date Created and/or Issued
1854
Contributing Institution
Center for Sacramento History
Collection
Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Oxen pull carts in long line over a mountain pass on way to California gold fields. Immigrants suffered greatly on their trip overland, so that relief efforts had to be organized in Sacramento and San Francisco. Photo of this lithograph taken from book, "The Annals of San Francisco."
Type
image
Identifier
DD8DF06D-BC45-4DE7-80D5-817594853233
1997/084/032J
Subject
Men
Oxen
Wagons
Horses

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