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Title: Advance of civilization. Scene on the Humboldt Desert, 322
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863-1869
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: Shows top of dormitory rail cars, crew installing insulators on telegraph poles, freight wagons, stacks of railroad ties. "Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada" -- front.
Yellow mount, yellow back.
Stereo-5983.
Mead Kibbey;
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : stereograph ; 3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001607889CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroad construction & maintenance--Nevada--Humboldt County
Railroad cars--Nevada--Humboldt County
Railroad tracks--Nevada--Humboldt County
Telegraph lines--Nevada--Humboldt County
Carts & wagons--Nevada--Humboldt County
Railroad construction workers
Humboldt County (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: Nevada
Humboldt County
Humboldt County (Nev.)

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