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Title: Snow plow at Cisco, #239
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1869 and 1874]
Publication Information: [San Francisco] : C. E. Watkins
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Stereo-1329
STEREO: RAILROADS: CPRR: WATKINS: #239
Orange mount and pink verso.
Shows snow plow, locomotive and cars on tracks curving around snow covered mountains. Locomotive is partway under a wooden structure visible in background. One figure of man perched atop the snow plow, Chinese worker at bottom of snow plow.
"Central Pacific Railroad" -- front.
Have negative no. 28,546 (4 x 5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001388635CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1941
Subject: Railroads--California--Cisco
Snowplows--California--Cisco
Chinese--California--Cisco
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Cisco
Cisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Cisco
Cisco (Calif.)

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