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Title: Old Emmigrant Trail
Contributor: McCurry Foto Co
Date Created and/or Issued: [19--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2009-0874
PHOTO: ROADS: EARLY
"A few miles above Placerville and now on the Lincoln paved highway to Lake Tahoe. The trail over which the immigrants toiled through the Sierra terminated here at Placerville and Coloma, eight miles distant."-handwritten note on back.
View of three donkeys loaded up with goods with waterfall seen in background. A man is standing near the donkeys.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 4/8 x 5 4/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001392846CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6194
Subject: Donkeys--California--El Dorado County
Emigration & immigration--California--El Dorado County
Pack animals--California--El Dorado County
Trails & paths--California--El Dorado County
Waterfalls--California--El Dorado County
El Dorado County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
El Dorado County
El Dorado County (Calif.)

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