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The late collision between the trains of the Western Pacific and S[an] F[rancisco] & Alameda R[ail] R[oad] Co[mpanie]s near Simpsons Station [California], Sunday No[ember] 14th, 1869

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Title: The late collision between the trains of the Western Pacific and S[an] F[rancisco] & Alameda R[ail] R[oad] Co[mpanie]s near Simpsons Station [California], Sunday No[ember] 14th, 1869
Creator: San Francisco Newsletter, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1869
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: Train wreck of the Western Pacific and San Francisco & Alameda Railroad companies showing destruction engines and railcars, and survivors.
Printed title (LC). Printed (UC): Illustrated postscript to the S[an] F[rancisco, California] newsletter; (LC): From a scetch [sic] made on the spot on hour after the collision.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 18.4 x 43.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf409nb5rt
BANC PIC 1963.002:0188--B
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Railroads
Vehicles

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