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View of Culebra or the Summit, the terminus of the Panama Railroad in Dec[ember] 1854

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Title: View of Culebra or the Summit, the terminus of the Panama Railroad in Dec[ember] 1854
Creator: Otis, F. N. (active ca. 1856), American?, artist Parsons, Charles R. (1821-1910), American, lithographer and publisher Endicott & Co. (active ca. 1854), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c185[4?]
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: Small train with 'US Mail" and "Specie" signs on coach behind engine entering small settlement of few buildings (including American Hotel) and thatched roof log houses. Busy crowd on both sides of rails, pack animals being prepared for travel. Tropical vegetation in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): C. Parsons lith.; (LC, above title): Sketched from nature by F.N. Otis M.D. Surgeon in U.S.M. Steamship Co.'s Service; (LR): Printed by Endicott & Co. N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): Entered... by F.N. Otis 185[4?]... New York. For variant see 1963.002:0262--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 25.8 x 36.2 cm., image on sheet 46.3 x 59.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6x0nb7r9
BANC PIC 1963.002:0262 (variant)--C
Subject: Buildings
Central America
Panama
Railroads
Settlements
Voyages to the Pacific

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