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Title: [Southern Pacific Railroad, The Loop, Tehachapi Pass] (2 views)
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1876?]
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.
View 1 (2010-0648). Side view. Watkins no. 1132 -- view 2 (2010-0649). View of Loop Tehachapi Pass on line of Southern Pacific Railroad, Mr. Geo. F. Gray Chief Engineer, Mr. W. Hood Chief Asst. Eng. Watkins no. 1133.
Also have negative: no. 9543 (70 mm) for 2010-0648 and no. 9544 (70 mm and 4 x 5 in.) for 2010-0649.
Construction completed by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876.
Restricted.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 3/8 x 21 in. on mount 15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. or smaller.
Identifier: (C)001455803CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Railroads--California--Tehachapi Pass
Passes (Landforms)--California
Mountains--California
Tehachapi Pass (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
Tehachapi Pass
Tehachapi Pass (Calif.)

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