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Title
Crossing the Grand Sierras : quartette, duet & chorus
Creator
Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Contributor
Chicago Lithographing Co
Root & Cady
Sacramento History Online: 2001-2002
Date Created and/or Issued
1870
Publication Information
Chicago : Root & Cady
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
1998-0643
PRINTS-F-SIZE: RAILROADS
8 pages of music with illustrated front cover, blank back cover. Front cover is a full page lithograph: view of a train crossing an arched bridge, over a stream, indians below train on hillside at the right, mountains in background; illustration by Chicago Lithographing Co.; text: "To Judge E. B. Crocker, of Sacramento Cal. Continental Railroad Chorus." "No. 46" on first page of music.
Additional text on cover: Henry C. Work, "author of 'Marching through Georgia,'' Wake Nicodemus,' 'Come home father,' 'Song of a thousand Years,' 'Kingdom coming."
Type
text
Format
Pictorial works.
Notated music
Extent
1 score (8 pages of music) : ill. ; 13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. folded.
Identifier
(C)001377944CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-1173
Subject
Railroads--California
Songs
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Sheet music covers
Place
California
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

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