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Title: California Terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad [San Francisco, California]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1871
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: Terminus comprised of three large, covered piers on bay with men working inside. Tugboat and sidewheeler steamship "El Capitan" (ship) on water near docks. Train moving down pier towards building at right.
Printed title (LC). Printed (on verso): April 6, 1871.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 18.1 x 27.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5v19p32r
BANC PIC 1963.002:0500--A
Subject: Railroads
San Francisco (Calif.)
Vessels
Waterfronts

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