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Title: The first railroad ride in California
Contributor: Sacramento History Online: 2001-2002
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2002-0116
Newspaper clipping from the Sacramento Union, March 31, 1920 showing an image of the Sacramento Valley Railroad locomotive No. 1, the Sacramento, and two open cars filled with people leaving the depot (August 17, 1855), on the opening of the road to Seventeenth Street. Newspaper text below the image.
Negative, no. 650 (4 x 5 in.)
Have 3 copies made by Hodson.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph, cardboard moutn ; 3 x 6 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001383886CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-7154
Language: English
Subject: Sacramento Valley Railroad--Pictorial works
Railroads--California--Sacramento
Firsts--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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