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Title: Tobogan [i.e. toboggan] slide and ice palace
Creator: Gage, Herman Kimball
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1874 and 1886]
Publication Information: Truckee, Cal. : H.K. Gage
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: 2008-1674
PHOTO: SPORTS: TOBOGGANING
Shows ice structure with windows, wooden ramp/slide with building at top and walkway to right. Snow-covered street with buildings lining either side, covered walkway on left, railroad cars and tracks on right. Buildings include J.L. Lewison & Co., dry goods, clothing and Workingham's Saloon.
Also have negative no. 29,247 (4x5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001390003CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-3320
Subject: Toboggans
Ice sculpture--California--Truckee
Buildings--California--Truckee
Railroad cars--California--Truckee
Truckee (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place: California
Truckee
Truckee (Calif.)

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