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Title: [Advertisement for shipping freight by Central Pacific Railroad directed towards Chinese]
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1870]
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: Includes image of man weighing crate on scale; horse and cart at left.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UC): Jan[uar]y 3, 1870, Received by mail from A. R.; LC): This advertisement tells Chinamen to ship freight by C.P.R.R. and how much per ton they charge, $2, how and when to ship it, A.R. Printed (LR): Lith. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]. Inscriptions in Chinese and English.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: pen lithograph 35.5 x 22.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5779p3z8
BANC PIC 1963.002:1829--A
Subject: Chinese
Railroads

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