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Across the continent, the snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Title: Across the continent, the snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Creator: Becker, Joseph (1841-1910), American, artist B. & H., undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Winter scene with train and cars (C.P.R.R.) emerging from snowsheds as Chinese workers come down to greet train; snow-covered hills and mountains in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): B. & H.; (LR): From a sketch by Joseph Becker.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 43.2 x 56.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3q2nb5qk
BANC PIC 1963.002:0808--C
Subject: Chinese
Laborers
Railroads
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

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