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[Railroads between New York and San Francisco, California, with scenes on the way (boardgame?)]

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Title: [Railroads between New York and San Francisco, California, with scenes on the way (boardgame?)]
Creator: Keller, George Frederick (active ca. 1872), American, lithographer Thistleton, Colonel George (active ca. 1872), American, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1872
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: Appears to be a boardgame, starting in New York, following railroads across the continent to San Francisco. Railroads represented include: New York and Erie Railroad, Michigan Central Railroad, Great Western Railroad, Burlington Route, Union Pacific Railroad, and Central Pacific Railroad. Numerous towns and train depots represented, including Kalamazoo, Albia, Toano, Battle Mountain, Truckee, Oakland, and others.
Supplied title. Printed (LL, within image): Colonel Geo. Thistleton/Author & Publisher/No. 9 Post St[reet] San Francisco; (LL): Entered...1872 by Geo. Thistleton...Washington DC; (LC): G.F. Keller, Lith., S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 57.2 x 48.2 cm., folded to 48.3 x 28.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf409nb5ps
BANC PIC 1963.002:0873--B
Subject: Overland journeys to the Pacific
Railroads
Settlements
Vehicles
West (U.S.)
Westward movement

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