Restricted original. Use of original glass plate by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
2005-0226 PHOTO: RAILROADS: SOUTHERN PACIFIC Digital image generated from a scan of the original glass plate. Original plate filed in the vault in daguerreotype cabinet, accession number 2005-0216. Restricted original. Two copies of a view of a railroad locomotive pulling fuel car (Southern Pacific signage on side), two baggage/freight cars and several passenger cars on steel bridge high over the Pecos River on the Sunset Route in West Texas; known as the Pecos Viaduct;completed in 1892. Includes 3/4 in. etched border. Accession no. 2005-0226 is a copy print (8 x 10 in.) made from the digital image. Accession no. 2005-0216 is the original glass plate positive cased in a thin metal frame (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 image in 10 1/8 x 12 in. frame).
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographs ; 10 1/8 x 12 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001386533CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-9811
Subject
Southern Pacific Railroad Company Railroads--Texas Railroad bridges--Texas Texas--Photographs Photographic prints Glass transparencies
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