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Description
Plates in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery : with a description of the geographical and geological features, and some account of the resources of the great West; containing thirty photographic views along the line of the Pacific rail road, from Omaha to Sacramento / by F.V. Hayden. Plate no. [XXVIII]. Illustrated with thirty views taken by A.J. Russell while in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. These documented the construction of the Pacific Railroad, initially published in 1869 in album, The Great West Illustrated. Photograph shows Central Pacific Railroad construction workers standing on railroad flatcars being pushed by locomotive across trestle at Promontory Point in Salt Lake Valley. 2010-6151.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print : albumen ; image 6 x 8 in.
Identifier
(C)001470591CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs Railroad construction & maintenance--Utah--Salt Lake Valley Trestles--Utah--Salt Lake Valley Railroads--Utah--Salt Lake Valley Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)--Photographs Photographic prints Albumen prints Book illustrations
Place
Utah Salt Lake Valley Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)
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