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Title: Tooth Bridge, Cascades, Columbia River, Oregon, No. 446
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1865 and 187?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Individual plates in: [Photographs of California and Oregon, n.d.], v. 2, plate no. [11].
Shows Cascade Rapids, Columbia River. On right bank 5-mile long portage railroad visible along river's edge. Shows tramway built of fir stringers, ties covered with planks to provide walkway for horses. Small horse-drawn car visible on tracks.
2009-1779.
Also have negatives no.: 9156 (70 mm) and 29,123 (4x5 in. color transparency)
Restricted original.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. on page 24 x 29 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001416059CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Rivers--Oregon
Railroads--Oregon
Portages--Oregon
Plank roads--Oregon
Bridges--Columbia River
Columbia River--Photographs
Photographic prints
Landscape photographs
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Oregon
Columbia River

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