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Title
Filling in Secret Town Trestle, C.P.R.R. (3 views)
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
1940
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (2019-1504). Reproduced by Sierra Photo Service, 1940 from stereograph in collection (stereo cannot be located, per original cataloging) -- view 2 (2019-1505). Reproduced by Hodson -- view 3 (2019-1506). Reproduced from image in Southern Pacific Historical Collection.
Shows Secrettown trestle; Chinese workers,
Also have negative: no. 4396 (4 x 5 in., made from view 3).
Reprints of originals.
From verso of view 3: original of the image taken in 1877. Shows the Secrettown trestle being filled in with dirt by Chinese Americans using pick and shovel, one-horse dump carts, wheel-barrows and black powder.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographs : print ; 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. and 8 x 10 in.
Language
English
Subject
Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--Placer County--Photographs
Railroad bridges--California--Placer County
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Placer County
Trestles--California--Placer County
Railroad construction workers
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)

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