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Evening View on the American River, below Cape Horn - Central Pacific Railroad. # 1285

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Title: Evening View on the American River, below Cape Horn - Central Pacific Railroad. # 1285
Contributor: Thomas Houseworth & Co
Date Created and/or Issued: c1868
Publication Information: San Francisco : Thomas Housewoorth & Co
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: STEREO-1839
STEREO COLLECTION: RAILROADS: C.P.R.R.: THOMAS HOUSEWORTH & CO.: # 1285
Photographer's number 1285
Orange mount; pink verso.
On front: "Central Pacific Railroad. By Thomas Houseworth & Co." On reverse: "Paris International Exhibition 1867, the highest prize, A Bronze Medal..." includes image of front and back of medal.
Distance view of a covered bridge over the American River, a white house is on the hillside beyond. Bushes are scattered on the hillsides to either side of the river.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001389591CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2906
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company
Railroads--California--Placer County
Rivers--California--Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)

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