Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a Southern Pacific Railway advertisement, equating railroad routes with the travels of frontiersman Kit Carson, ca.1930. A drawing of a man in a coonskin cap is shown at top, looking out over trees, mountains, water and a team of horses. Below, a woman is depicted being attended to by a servant. Below, the text details the "Sunset Route", "Overland (Lake Tahoe) Route", "Golden State Route" and "Shasta Route".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 17 x 13 cm. photographic prints photographs
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