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Description
1998-0022 PRINTS-F-MAP: RAILROADS: PANAMA RAILROAD View of Culebra, steam engine with wood and mail car stopped in the village, most buildings with thatched roofs, three-story American Hotel in background at right; many people milling about, some with pack animals. Sketched from nature by F.N. Otis, M.D. Surgeon on the U.S.M. Steamship Co.'s Service; colored lithograph by Charles Parsons; printed by Endicott & Co. Negative, no. 25,094 (4 x 5 in.) and photographic print in CSL's Photograph Collection (no. 1998-0023) First illustration of the transcontinental railroad and recalls the struggles of the foryt-niners who went by way of the Isthmus.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print on 18 1/4 x 23 1/8 in. sheet : lithograph, color ; 10 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. image.
Identifier
(C)001376911CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-0122
Subject
Transcontinental journeys Railroad companies--Panama--Culebra Gold miners Culebra (Panama)--Pictorial works Lithographs Prints
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