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Title: ["Ruins of the High Bridge," Columbia River, Oregon], no. 434
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1867]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Shows river, mountains in background, train in foreground, trestles of bridge (one has collapsed).
2010-0548.
Also have negative: no. 9615 (70 mm).
Restricted.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 5/8 x 20 1/2 in. on mount 17 1/4 x 22 in.
Identifier: (C)001454350CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Rivers--Oregon
Trestles--Oregon
Bridges--Oregon
Railroads--Oregon
Mountains--Oregon
Bridge failures--Oregon
Lower Columbia River (Or. and Wash.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Oregon
Lower Columbia River (Or. and Wash.)

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