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Emigrant Gap. View from the Tunnel, looking West - Central Pacific Railroad. # 1268

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Title: Emigrant Gap. View from the Tunnel, looking West - Central Pacific Railroad. # 1268
Contributor: Thomas Houseworth & Co
Date Created and/or Issued: c1868
Publication Information: San Francisco : Thomas Houseworth & 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-1837
STEREO COLLECTION: RAILROADS: C.P.R.R.: THOMAS HOUSEWORTH & CO.: # 1268.
Photographer's number 1268
Yellow mount; yellow verso.
Imprint on front, left side - "CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD. By Thomas Houseworth & Co." On reverse - "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC COAST, FOR THE STEREOSCOPE, ALBUM, MAGIC LANTERN, AND ..."
View of a train approaching a raised portion of track curving to the right, into a forest of evergreen trees. Several people are seen standing around the train. To the right, many felled and stripped tree trunks are scattered by the tracks.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001389579CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2894
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company
Railroads--California--Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)

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