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Title: [Western Pacific Railroad Company]
Contributor: Western Pacific Railroad Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2019-1246.
Shows workers laying rail, Hicks Rail Layer, flat cars loaded with rails, spectators (men, women, children), buildings in background.
Plates in: [Pictures of the construction of the Western Pacific railroad] / Western Pacific Railroad Company, Vol. [1], pg. [49].
Estate of Charles William Hendel;
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 9 1/4 x 12 in.
Language: English
Subject: Western Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Feather River Canyon
Railroad cars--California--Feather River Canyon
Hoisting machinery
Railroad construction workers
Children--California--Feather River Canyon
Spectators--California--Feather River Canyon
Feather River Canyon (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Feather River Canyon
Feather River Canyon (Calif.)

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