CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY MUSEUM

USER AGREEMENT

"I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter."
—paraphrasing Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662.

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This website is completely free (as in zip, zero, nada) for more that 99% FAQ of the visitors who just want to enjoy seeing the pictures, etc. online and are not making money by using our restorations. This website and related content is made available only for your transient personal educational viewing using a web browser and all other rights are expressly reserved by the copyright owner. Permission to browse this copyrighted website requires acceptance of this User Agreement. It is a violation of this agreement and/or U.S. and international copyright laws to download, forward, duplicate, or distribute unauthorized copies of this website or the pictures, even for internal or personal use. Please do not download pictures or other content without first requesting permission.  Pictures on this website are generally copyrighted original skillful restorations. Sorry about all the rights and permissions legalese — otherwise it wouldn't be feasible for rare and valuable collections to be available for your study on the net. Using this site (and all related activity, including sending us messages) means you accept its terms. Don't be put off by the legalese, but please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before using this website, because you are bound by them.  This user agreement is needed mostly to make sure that our good deed of putting all this great stuff on the net goes unpunished, and to emphasize that publication and commercial rights are not being given away, i.e. "Take no pictures ... and leave no footprints" or "Look but don't touch," and there is no warranty.  The goal is for you to enjoy viewing these historic treasures on the CPRR Museum website, not to keep them locked away out of sight, but theft of content from this website will seriously anger our generous donors who have allowed their rare and valuable mostly private collections to be displayed here and will put our entire project in jeopardy,  so please contact us and let us know when we can be of help, if you have ideas about how to do this better, or if you believe that we are being in any way unfair or unreasonable,  but please don't get mad at us for only being able to let you see these wonderful images until you obtain permission for other use as we attempt to deal as best we can with technological limitations, donor restrictions, the dismal state of copyright law, some rather hairy legal requirements, and our need to pay the bills to keep this museum open (donations are requested), or because of a blog, and please don't spoil our day by sending us a rant without first reading our rants page. Point at the blue FAQ boxes for pop-up answers. Caution: Acknowledgements, links, etc. are not merchant endorsements. Only send content intended for publication. To avoid squandering scarce resources, please only send licensing requests that you are certain about or penalties may apply as the terms are ORDERS ONLY, ALL ORDERS FINAL!  If you do not intend to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, please do not access or use this website – as such browsing would violate this website's copyright. "You'll shoot your eye out." --Jean Shepherd That said, let the contract begin:

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LEGAL NOTICES

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Warning!ON-LINE REFERENCE VIEWING USE ONLY. EACH ACCESS IS BY PERMISSION ONLY.   ACCESS FOR PICTURE DOWNLOADING IS NOT AUTHORIZED.  THIS PRIVATE WEB SITE WHICH IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY IS FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE PERSONAL GENERAL INFORMATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND/OR ENTERTAINMENT NON-COMMERCIAL INTERNET VIEWING ONLY. FAQ  APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION AND PAYMENT OF A FEE IS REQUIRED FOR ALL OTHER USE. THIS WEBSITE PROVIDES ONLY EVANESCENT AUTHORIZED PREVIEWS; YOU MAY NOT KEEP COPIES WITHOUT PERMISSION, WITHOUT NOTIFYING US, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PURCHASING A LICENSE.  CONTENT HAS BEEN PREPARED AND/OR INCLUDED AND IS PROVIDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND/OR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY, IS OFTEN HISTORICAL AND/OR NOT UP-TO-DATE (NOR DOES THE PAST RELIABLY PREDICT THE FUTURE), AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE RAILROAD, GEOGRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHIC, COLLECTING, MEDICAL, ENGINEERING, FINANCIAL, INVESTMENT, LEGAL, TAX, SAFETY, EXPERT, OR OTHER ADVICE, NOR PERSONALIZED ADVICE, NOR ACTING AS A FIDUCIARY, AND YOU MAY NOT RELY UPON IT AS SUCH.  SPECIFICALLY, BUT NOT IN LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE AS TO THE ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION, OR THE APPROPRIATENESS TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, NOR IF BENEFICIAL TO YOU.  READ THIS ENTIRE CONTRACT BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE OR ASSOCIATED MESSAGES.


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This website is protected by Copyright. All rights reserved. Tous droits réservés. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Copyright registration for the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum has been granted annually after review by the United States Copyright Office, since this website's inception in 1999, as evidenced by multiple issued U.S. Certificates of Copyright.

FBI Warning to "Pirates in Cyberspace" about the crime of "Intellectual Property Theft":
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This End User License Agreement ("CPRR.org User Agreement") grants you, personally and individually, a non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, limited license, permitting access only for the use of immediately electronically displaying content retrieved from this website, a copyrighted publication entitled the "Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum," including but not limited to visual and documentary resources, during the term of this Agreement on a single designated computer, using a web browser with javascript enabled and that displays pop-up titles, in real time to no more than two people at a time for personal, private, local, non-commercial, educational viewing purposes relating to the railroad, historical, or photographic subject mater of this website only, for reference use only, subject to the limitations set forth herein, and except with our written permission, not to copy or to redistribute, in any form, including but not limited to downloads, framing or similar means, prints, or screen outputs or any part thereof, to any other persons or locations, nor in any other medium, nor make other than customary historic use, nor make use in other than an expected manner. This license authorizes no other access or use, nor any other multiple computer or multiple user arrangement. Other uses, reproduction or distribution are specifically prohibited. Licensor retains ownership of the intellectual property, including, but not limited to website, discussion, images, text, content, data, files, and software, and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. You agree not to store, retain, reproduce, make available, or distribute content, data, text, images, software, or files obtained from this website or from us without our permission, nor to help, facilitate, encourage, or induce others to do so without our permission. 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You shall acquire no ownership rights to this website or any webpage, image, text, data, software or other content or any portion thereof, in any form, on this website or provided by us which you shall not resell or otherwise transfer, nor shall you retain or take continuing or permanent possession thereof. The license granted herein to use images or other content shall automatically terminate instantly upon your failure to comply with the terms of this User Agreement, any subsequent use is without permission and in violation of copyright, and all monies owed shall immediately become due and payable, however all other obligations and provisions hereunder shall survive, and specifically, but not in limitation of the foregoing, you agree that any provision(s) hereof that operate to protect us shall remain in force. All images are for private non-commercial educational viewing purposes only. 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We reserve the right to take appropriate legal action to cover our damages if you violate or refuse to partake in your responsibilities or commit fraudulent activity against us. 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Proprietary Rights: You acknowledge and agree that the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, any necessary software used in connection with this website ("software"), and any images, materials, data, documents, or other content provided by us that is related to the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, this website, or the software contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that any content contained in the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum or information presented to you through this website or by us is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by CPRR.org, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, this website, its content, text, images, or the software, in whole or in part, nor use our trademarks or service marks for any purpose. You may not use any content on this website or obtained from us except in compliance with this User Agreement. The rights granted to you under this User Agreement may not be used to create, or enable the creation or redistribution of unlawful or unlicensed copies of any content on this website or obtained from us, nor to circumvent, violate, or enable the circumvention or violation of any terms of this User Agreement. Senno Ekto Gamat!

CPRR.org may have proprietary rights that are necessary for you to license in order to make use of this website, its content, and related intellectual property. We do not wish to be exposed to liability or risk of loss as a consequence of our generosity in making available historic images and other content on-line, nor to lose licensable publication rights upon which the financial viability of this project depends. Consequently, and as stated in the above preamble, if you do not intend to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, please do not access or use this website. We sincerely regret that this legal document is of necessity lengthy and complex, ask for qualified help in hopefully making it less so in the future, and invite you to submit a fully developed counteroffer that shows us how to do this better, but if you are simply unwilling to take to time to read and understand its provisions, disagree with any of its terms, or are of the belief that it is overreaching or in any way unfair or unreasonable, there are many alternative sources for transcontinental railroad historical information and you can easily avoid the provisions of this User Agreement entirely by leaving immediately and making no access to or use of this website. FAQ However if you instead choose to make use of this website, thereby accepting this User Agreement, you agree that as a consequence you shall be bound by all of its provisions and may not later argue that this agreement or any provision hereof is invalid or inoperative merely because of length or complexity, nor may you later assert, and you waive the right to argue that this User Agreement should be ignored or invalidated on the grounds that it is overreaching or in any way unfair or unreasonable, and not in limitation of the forgoing, you further agree and stipulate that this agreement or parts thereof may not be ignored or invalidated due to length, complexity, overreaching, unfairness, or unreasonableness, or the like unless such argument shall prevail generally against any contract, law, and regulation of like or greater length, complexity, overreaching, unfairness, or unreasonableness, etc. (We note in passing, by way of comparison and perspective, that this User Agreement, is less than a third the length of the text of just this website's Frequently Asked Questions pages, and constitutes less than 0.03% of this website.) We also strongly urge you to stop smoking, always buckle your seatbelt, carefully first read each prospectus and do your own research before you purchase or invest, and diversify whenever investing, understand that "past performance is not a guide to future performance and should not be used as a reason for selecting a particular investment," and control your cholesterol and blood pressure, even when reading legal documents.

"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." —Albert Einstein

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CLICK TO ACCEPT: Any access to or use of this website or its Internet domain name(s) or IP address(es), image(s), or content, including but not limited to clicking (or the equivalent) on any link or image (other than to view this User Agreement web page), or by sending the character string "/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/" to our web server as you must do to gain access to our images, or by clicking on your "SEND" button to send us an e-mail, or the like, all indicate and signify that "I ACCEPT" this user agreement, WHICH CONTAINS A PRE-DISPUTE ARBITRATION CLAUSE, and each such action indicates your intent to thereby attach your Click any image or link on the CPRR.org website to attach your electronic signature to this User Agreement.electronic signature to this agreement, and your unconditional acknowledgment and acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions herein without modification, and that this agreement shall take effect immediately; to indicate "I DECLINE" FAQ simply make no such use and close all windows of this website. 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You acknowledge and agree to the validity of the CPRR.org copyrights, trademarks and service marks, trade secrets, and other proprietary laws and rights both in the United States and internationally, and our claim of ownership of the intellectual property that comprises this website, its images and other content, and that CPRR.org has established significant rights and valuable good will therein. You agree not to impair the title, rights and interest of CPRR.org in such marks and other intellectual property, including but limited to images and other content, names, pseudonyms, full name(s), shortened name(s), Internet domain name(s), and the acronym(s) of this museum, website, and associated entities and author(s) thereof and their logo(s), nor our reputation or good will. 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Courts have upheld the ability of content owners to restrict access to their digital works, flatly rejecting "free speech" and "fair use" arguments: "the Court expressed confidence in 'the likelihood ... that this decision will serve notice on others ... and thus contribute to a climate of appropriate respect for intellectual property rights in an age in which the excitement of ready access to untold quantities of information has blurred in some minds the fact that taking what is not yours and not freely offered to you is stealing.'"  concluding " ... nor has an art student a valid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by photographing it in a museum."
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, November 28, 2001.

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Rules from 1882 Transcontinental Railroad Timetable
Rules from 1882 Transcontinental Railroad Timetable

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You agree not to take any action that will impose a disproportionately large or unreasonable load on our computer web server(s) or programs thereon, our network, or other infrastructure, nor to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our website(s) or any program thereon, as determined by us in our sole discretion. Please be mindful of the large amounts of data transfer needed to allow viewing of the CPRR Museum web pages with multiple, large images, and avoid suddenly flooding the CPRR Museum website with large numbers of unanticipated visitors.  Suddenly increased, excess web traffic on this website as a result of your actions, including but not limited to publicity, reporting, or recommendations to others regarding this website on network television or radio or national publications or media, of more than one gigabyte of additional Internet data transfer per month, shall be at your expense, and you agree to reimburse CPRR.org for the resulting costs at the rate of the then prevailing additional data transfer charge made by the Internet provider(s) hosting this website.  Access without permission by software robot, software program performing multiple, automated, successive requests, or other automated or high volume electronic process, is specifically prohibited.  Merchants identified or linked on this website operate independently from the CPRR Museum, and we do not endorse any merchant or assume responsibility for transactions conducted with them.  Links may be to our affiliates and sales through affiliate links may benefit this website. CPRR.org may collect a small percentage on sales or other fee using affiliate, associated, or advertising website links, at no additional cost to you; thanks for your support when using such links!  This website is a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program, in association with Amazon.com.  Amazon.com® is the registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc.  This website is an affiliate member of the Adorama Camera store.  This website is an affiliate member of the HistoryChannel.com Network.  This website carries an Internet Content Rating Association rating and other machine readable content ratings to indicate its suitability for use by children, and displays the ICRA logo, use of which is subject to the ICRA terms and conditions and is not transferable. The selection and placement of advertisements linked on this website under the Google AdSense program is determined automatically by a computer program for presumed relevance to the content of the webpage on which they appear, and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by us; consequently maintaining editorial quality of "Ads by Google" is the responsibility of Google.com.   Viewing of certain web content may require installation of additional software on your computer, including but not limited to a pdf viewer such as the free Adobe reader; installation of software is at your entire risk. Due to scanning and digital restoration of images,  the appearance of items may differ substantially from actual condition.  Please note that we are not responsible for typographical errors. Writings converted to text by optical character recognition (OCR) or other transcription from the original are stored more compactly, display more quickly, are made available for computer searching of content, enable hypertext linking, and may have increased legibility, but will contain transcription errors that may not be apparent and may include changed numbers, missing or moved content, altered words or spelling, and garbled tables, and as such machine transcribed text has not necessarily been completely proofread, it must be used with caution.  You may not rely upon the accuracy or timeliness of images, text, or other content of this website and agree to independently verify and compare with and utilize the original whenever a high level of accuracy is needed, nor should you attempt any act, event, or other information portrayed on this website.  Item descriptions may be based on unverified dealer, seller, or author representations.  The date "Last Updated" which appears on many pages on this website is an approximation which generally signifies the date of the last significant or major update, is not an automated file modification date, is for convenience only, and may not reflect technical, typographic, or minor additions, deletions, or corrections, nor changes performed by automated software made to multiple pages; consequently, if monitoring minor changes on a particular page is of interest, please use an automated notification service.  Use of this website and its content is entirely at your risk and you are cautioned that excessive viewing could lead to railroad obsession and/or marital strife. This educational website and its content, images, links, and related information is provided for informational purposes only.  The information supplied on this web site is general in nature and should not be relied upon to make decisions, designs, investments, or purchases. Past investment performance is not predictive or indicative of future results, so you should not assume that the purchase of any item or product made reference to directly or indirectly on this website, or indirectly via a link to a third-party web site, will be profitable in the future. You are further cautioned that railroadiana collectibles, historic photographs, ephemera, works of art, rare books, maps, and the like, are easily damaged thinly traded highly speculative items which are difficult to price and for which no established market likely exists and may be subject to large commissions or dealer markups, that produce no income, that should be authenticated and purchased only by those with sufficient expertise, are not recommended by us for purchase, and if acquired need to be properly stored, conserved, preserved, and insured, should be acquired for personal enjoyment and not be considered investments, are not diversified, and are unsuitable for most individuals. Before deciding to purchase such items, please consider that your spouse or family may not understand or approve, and your children, other heirs, or institutions may be disinterested and not want your collection which you may have difficulty in selling or even giving away (for example, due to the cost of accessioning a collection, and the ongoing expenses for storage and insurance).   For example, but not in limitation hereof, this website, its contents, or other information or opinion obtained from us may not be used to authenticate or determine the value, age, rarity, or desirability of securities, antiques, railroad equipment, photographs, artwork, collectibles, or the like, and does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, antiques, railroad equipment, photographs, artwork, collectibles, or the like and must not be relied upon in connection with any purchase or investment decision. Maps on this website or obtained from us are historical in nature, may contains errors, do not reflect current conditions and such maps are not for use in navigation.  Neither we, nor this web site and its resources are engaged in rendering transportation, medical, engineering, artistic, pharmaceutical, navigational, environmental, philatelic, scripophilic, ferroequinologic, historical, academic, therapeutic, investment, nor legal advice or professional services, nor may this website or information obtain from us be deemed to constitute or be used as a substitute for your obtaining needed advice from a qualified professional. You should obtain professional advice as appropriate also because the application of laws and regulations will vary according to your particular circumstances, and because laws and regulations change frequently. This website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. You should not use the information on this website for self-diagnosis or for treating any health problem or disease, including but not limited to any of the variations of railroad mania, spouse inattention syndrome, internet addiction, or smallpox; contact your health-care provider immediately if you suspect that you have a medical problem. In an emergency call 911 or the telephone number for emergencies used in your location. As built or current conditions may not be accurately reflected in historic or other descriptions or depictions, i.e., your mileage may vary. Please note that comments made during locomotive cab rides may include forward-looking observations that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and that actual destination may differ materially from these forward-looking directions. For more information on the factors that could influence resulting destinations, including but not limited to track curvatures, please refer to railroad timetables. Additionally, but not in limitation hereof, this website, its contents, or other information, images, data, or opinion obtained from us may not be used for any safety, mechanical, design, construction, building, engineering, or operational purposes relating to railroad, aircraft, nuclear facility, or other equipment, or functional models thereof, including, but not limited to replica locomotives, "live steamers," nor for any hazardous activity, nor for any activity that could result in an accident, collision, derailment, fire, burns, scalding, steam explosion, environmental damage, or in bodily injury or death, nor for real estate descriptions, title searches, or transactions, nor for any purpose where a misinterpretation or error could result in anything more serious that a minor, harmless historical cosmetic inaccuracy. We urge you to stay safe and bring to the attention of law enforcement authorities any concerns regarding safety or property damage and not to engage in dangerous or vigilante activities; You agree not to involve us or use this website in connection with any such activities. Please request permission if you wish to obtain a license to use a thumbnail image from this website, for example, for display on a personal portable device such as a cellphone, PDA, or iPod. The contents of this website and of any e-mail or other communication from CPRR.org merely represents the then current view of CPRR.org or the author and should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of CPRR.org or the author, nor an expert opinion.  Opinions expressed on this website or other writings may be those of other information content providers, or historical content, including but not limited to contributing authors, individuals sending us messages or other content donated for publication on this website, or persons posting comments, and are not necessarily those of CPRR.org, and should be presumed to be unvetted. It shall be entirely your responsibility for verifying the accuracy of information and sources, and the qualification, if any, of individuals, upon which you choose to rely. For purposes of robust immunity from liability for publishing false or defamatory material, we "shall not be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Caveat lector.

Stay safe! Don't get yourself killed by playing on the tracks or by wandering off into the wilderness.

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All notices under this User Agreement shall be in writing, such as e-mail, therefore, and not in limitation hereof, notices to you may be posted on this website or sent via e-mail. We reserve the right to provide communications on paper, but you agree that we are not obligated to use paper and may at our sole discretion communicate electronically. Our records, kept in the regular course of operating this website and related e-mail, shall be presumed to accurately reflect the contents of your instructions or other communications to us and our reply(ies) or other communications to you, if any, and in the absence of manifest error, will be binding and conclusive. A printed version of this User Agreement shall be admissible in arbitration, judicial, or administrative proceedings to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.  This User Agreement, and any e-mail, facsimile, or other communications between you and us that is or can be printed by a computer onto paper, whether electronic or on paper, shall be considered to be "in writing" and you should print a paper copy of this User Agreement and any such personal electronic communication that is important to you and retain the copy for your records. If you are unwilling to receive this User Agreement, licensed content, or other communications from us electronically, you may not use this website or otherwise license content from us. Clause or paragraph titles, headings, translations into languages other than English, emoticons, html tags, image titles, and/or pop-up answers to frequently asked questions are for reading convenience, and hyperlinks are for convenience in accessing related information, and all shall be disregarded when construing this instrument, as shall the historic "Special Information All Should Read," the discussion of "forward-looking observations ... and ... resulting destinations," the Google Adsense advertisements, the pithy italicised quotations of Einstein, Shaw, etc., the "ACHTUNG! ... 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You agree that you will not settle any action or claims on our behalf without our prior written consent.

Your relationship with us is and at all times shall remain one of licensee and licensor, and nothing in this Agreement shall create any other relationship between us, including but not limited to not creating any joint venture, joint employer, franchisee-franchisor, employer-employee, professional-client, organization-member, or principal-agent relationship between you and us, nor impose upon us any obligations for any losses, debts, taxes, or other obligations incurred by you or as a result of your actions.  You agree that any time you expend relating to this website is only for your enjoyment and educational purposes and/or your educational hobby or collection and is not labor on behalf of us or our website, and that while you may donate property, including intellectual property (for which gifts we are most grateful!), you may not and agree not to work on our behalf or donate your labor to us, nor allow us to determine the manner or result of your activities or accomplishments, nor shall there be any economic exchange thereby. You shall not have the legal right or authority under this User Agreement to make any warranty, promise, guaranty, representation or agreement in our name or for our account.

It shall be your sole responsibility to insure or self-insure against damage or loss any valuable goods or other property which you own or are sending to us, regardless of their location, or while in transit, including but not limited to antiques, artwork, documents, ephemera, books, or historic photographs, nor shall any such delivery to us result in the creation of any loan or bailment, express or implied. You also acknowledge that good data processing practice dictates that all software and data must be thoroughly tested by you using non-critical data before there is reliance on it.

Non-enforcement of any provision herein does not constitute consent or waiver, and we reserve the right to enforce such provision at our sole discretion and at any time, without limitation, and regardless of any delay after we learn of any violation of the terms and conditions hereof and whether such delay be reasonable or unreasonable, and the waiver of any breach of any provision of this User Agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach, nor shall any waiver constitute a continuing waiver. You agree to pay to us the hourly research charge and any additional costs and/or damages resulting from your breach or attempted breach of this User Agreement which may cause us to expend resources to research and/or to block or attempt to block unauthorized access and/or violation or abuse of our intellectual property, procedures as set forth herein, and/or computer network and/or to prevent or attempt to prevent such access, violation, or abuse from occurring or continuing. No omission or delay by us in exercising our rights or remedies will impair them, nor be construed as a waiver, nor will any partial or single exercise of a remedy or right preclude further exercise of any other remedy or right. Each of the rules, terms, and conditions set forth in this User Agreement stand alone, and any such provision which is inconsistent with the applicable laws then governing will be deemed to have been modified by us and applied in a manner consistent with such laws.  If any portion of this agreement shall be held unenforceable, invalid or inoperative, then, (a) the remainder of this agreement shall be considered valid and operative, and the remaining provisions shall be nevertheless carried into effect, (b) insofar as it is reasonable and possible, effect shall be given to the intent manifested by the portion held unenforceable, invalid or inoperative, and such portion shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and (c) and, if further required to give effect to the original intentions of the parties hereto, such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a mutually acceptable provision, which being valid, legal and enforceable comes closest to the original intentions of the parties to this User Agreement and has like economic effect. You agree that in the event that any prohibition hereunder on copying is held unenforceable, that in lieu of the prohibition you will instead pay us use fees according to the published schedule for commercial use for all copying.  The language of this User Agreement shall be construed as to its fair meaning and not strictly for or against any party.  WE WANT TO FULLFILL ANY OBLIGATIONS THAT WE MAY HAVE AND CONSEQUENTLY REQUIRE THAT YOU TELL US PROMPTLY IF THERE IS A PROBLEM AND GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION. IF YOU SHOULD CONCLUDE OR DISCOVER FACTS WHICH REASONABLY INDICATE THAT WE HAVE VIOLATED THIS USER AGREEMENT, OR FAILED TO PERFORM ANY OBLIGATIONS THAT WE MAY HAVE, OR HAVE BREACHED A LEGAL DUTY, OR HAVE MISUSED ANY LAW OR REMEDY, OR THAT WE HAVE BEEN NEGLIGENT, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY CPRR.ORG BY E-MAIL AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY BUT WITHIN 12 HOURS, AND TO FOLLOW-UP BY PROVIDING ALL KNOWN SPECIFICS AND DETAILS BY E-MAIL NOTIFICATION TO MUSEUM@CPRR.ORG WITHIN TEN DAYS. IF YOU FAIL TO GIVE THE FOREGOING TIMELY NOTICES TO US, YOU SHALL THEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ALL CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the CPRR Museum or this User Agreement must be filed by you within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action first arose, and regardless of when discovered, or be forever barred.  The parties hereto stipulate and agree that (1) as the physical premises of the CPRR Museum consist of the Museum's Internet webserver(s) and storage components thereof, these shall be construed as the Museum's real property, and (2) that the electronic signals created when the website or content thereof is used constitute the CPRR Museum's physical personal property; neither of which shall be trespassed or converted by unauthorized entry, access, transfer, or use and our right to exclude others from trespassing and/or converting such property or from our virtual network premises is not equivalent to any rights protected by copyright. You also acknowledge that contractual arrangements between the parties hereto are not equivalent to the general exclusivity provided by copyright.  The parties hereto further stipulate and agree that use of this website or the content thereof in violation of this User Agreement causes actual and irreparable harm inflicted by such conduct, constitutes a substantial interference with possession or the right thereto, and shall give rise to causes of action for trespass, conversion, or the like, false advertising, federal and state trademark dilution, computer fraud and abuse, unfair competition, misappropriation, interference with prospective economic advantage, unjust enrichment, copyright infringement, and other causes of action as applicable, and that no remedy or election we choose shall be deemed exclusive but shall, wherever possible, be cumulative with all other remedies at law or in equity, and that each image or graphic shall constitute a separate copyrighted work.  We reserve the right in our sole and unfettered discretion to deny you access to this website at any time for any reason or for no reason.

In particular, unauthorized printing or down-loading of images reproduced on this website from the Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations ("NYPL") is prohibited.

Acknowledgement: Bruce C. Cooper, the great, great grandson of CPRR Assistant Chief Engineer, Lewis Metzler Clement, separately doing business as Cooper-Clement Associates, Digital Image Services, a third party, independent contractor, does Digital Image Restorations, many excellent examples of which have been graciously donated and appear on this website, as noted.

ORIGINALITY: You acknowledge, agree, and stipulate that image restoration and enhancement demonstrated on each of the images shown on this website, constitutes originality, is a substantial variation and adaptation that is not an inevitable result of the digital medium of reproduction, and does not consist merely of making an accurate, faithful, slavish, or mechanical reproduction of a degraded historic photograph, map, or document with absolute fidelity, but – to the contrary – such creative artistry consists of, but is not limited to, manual artistic personal imprint, in each case creating a better new improved version recast, transformed, adapted, and distinguishable from the digitally scanned or digitally photographed image from which it was derived (which is just the staring point, not the ending point of the restoration and enhancement that typically alters every one of the thousands or millions of numbers that represent each digital image), requiring individual conception, judgment, numerous creative decisions, and execution and that the originality, personal influence, and contribution consists of, but is not limited to, interpreting each image and deciding on numerous expressive modifications to multiple visual elements (involving a large number of difficult and time consuming creative judgments of personal expression requiring true artistic skill and which are a product of our intellectual invention) subjectively deciding the artistic merit of how best to independently alter the image to create additional added portions of the digital visual image that were missing or obscured in the scanned image, change the apparent lighting and shading, replace removed blemishes, and alter and transform the aesthetic appearance of the image intended to make each clearer, sharper, more perfect, and more visually pleasing. Something of substance has been added making the image so modified to some extent a new work and providing a basis for asserting copyright for each such image.

Warning! Visitors are also strongly cautioned that you may not sell a reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity to an unlicensed cephalopoid.Please don't shoplift the pictures!
[Make no mistake — these original artistic digital images weren't created in the 19th century.]
Gardner 152. Before Restoration (Courtesy Barry A. Swackhamer)
Before and After Digital Enhancement
Gardner 152. After Restoration (Courtesy Barry A. Swackhamer)
Gardner 152. "Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its Way."
Courtesy Barry A. Swackhamer Collection.

Lincoln Dag Before Lincoln Dag After
Abraham Lincoln as a Young Lawyer, Daguerreotype.
Courtesy Library of Congress.

Lincoln Dag Before Lincoln Dag After

CPRR Engineer, Carte de Visite.
Courtesy Bruce C. Cooper Collection.

Restoration of Albumen Emulsion Cracks
Anthony stereoview #7148
, detail. Albumen emulsion shows innumerable fine cracks obscuring the image
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"I've seen a heap of trouble in my life, and most of it never came to pass." —Mark Twain

Š 2024 CPRR.org. By clicking any image or link on this website, I agree to be bound by this CPRR.org User Agreement.
CLICK ANY IMAGE OR LINK TO ACCEPT THE USER AGREEMENT

PICTURES FOR HOMEWORK USE ONLY:

Notice: LICENSING FOR PUBLICATION USE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED (October 25, 2014).

HOW TO REQUEST PERMISSION TO PUBLISH PICTURES OR OTHER USE:
Once you have finished deciding which picture(s) you are certain you will use, please write and tell us the web page's address (URL) where you found each picture that you want to license.  (Also tell us the picture's caption or description if there is more than one picture on that web page.)  All permissions e-mails received are binding orders and must be specific, as available rights vary; no telephone calls, please.
IMPORTANT:  Requesting permission signifies your commitment to use and immediately pay for the image(s), and your acceptance of this user agreement; no exceptions. FAQ
ORDERS ONLY! – ALL ORDERS FINAL!   Sorry, but since the images are on our website for you to preview and we subsidize the preparation and delivery of images requested for publication or commercial use, which can be very time consuming and tax our limited resources, content cannot be licensed "on approval," and all permissions e-mails are only for placing a firm order for a use license. FAQ
Requests usually will receive a very quick response, except due to extended vacation schedules at times during the summer months.  Please don't send us a rant without first reading our rants page.
If you are requesting use of our images on your website, please first read this web use FAQ.

PERMISSIONS – CONTENT LICENSING
Additional Terms and Conditions for License to Reproduce Still Images or other website content: CPRR.org strongly encourages permitted scholarly, educational, artistic, cultural, scientific, or commercial use that brings these images or other content to a wider audience.  If you want permission,  we sincerely hope that you don't get scared off by all this legalese and give up!  We can only be friendly and helpful if we hear from you, and you tell us exactly what you need.  Once you are certain of your needs, please write to CPRR.org (and other owner or rights holder, as applicable) ["Licensor"] to apply to obtain access and use or reuse permission to reproduce image(s) or other content(s), in print, broadcast, video, film, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Internet or any other photographic or electronic medium.  Include in the application and statement of intent to license and use one or more images (your "Request for License to Reproduce Still Images") which constitutes your irrevocable order for a use license:  the item requested; purpose, duration, and intended use of the requested item including the title or description, author or product, publisher or producer, publication or release date, placement location (at the interior, jacket, cover, or other location; or the URL if for Web use), size of the print run, territory (whether North America or worldwide), and whether in one language or all languages; the name or title, organization, street address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address of the proposed "Licensee"; and any special preferences (if any) regarding image resolution or format.  Permission may be granted or withheld on a case by case basis at the sole discretion of Licensor.  The fee for a license for reproduction of each of CPRR.org's still images will be the same as set forth in the Use Fee Schedule (Still Images) and which schedule is incorporated herein by reference, for the one-time, one-use, non-exclusive, publication use of each single image or other content for the purpose specified, and is never for an unlimited term, nor in perpetuity; the default duration if otherwise unspecified is the lesser of one year or the duration of the requested use.  The use fee for a license for reproduction of text is one thousandth of a U.S. dollar per word times the number of words times the number of copies, except in the case of Internet use where we generally follow the New York Times use fee schedule of one hundred dollars per article per 30 days or fraction thereof.  The amount of the use fee may be adjusted by several cents in order to facilitate electronic tracking and verification of payments.  Permitted use shall not exceed the use set forth in the application and statement of intent which shall be accurate.  The license does not take effect until all payment is received in full. By submitting your request for permission or permissions inquiry, you are obligating yourself and your organization(s), if any, to license, immediately pay for, and to actually make use of the image(s) or other content requested in the manner as set forth in your application, should permission be granted.  If you don't want to buy a license, don't e-mail us about permissions — it's that simple!  You agree to be responsible for errors and/or misunderstandings (and cannot reject an image as being the "wrong picture" or "not ordered") resulting from your ignoring the ordering instructions: "Once you have finished deciding which picture(s) you are certain you will use, please write and tell us the web page's address (URL) where you found each picture that you want to license.  (Also tell us the picture's caption or description if there is more than one picture on that web page.)" You may not e-mail us regarding permissions if you lack decision authority, or while you have requested and/or are attempting, planning, or considering taking action to obtain the same or alternate image(s) from another source.  Your commitment to actually use the requested material is required because your request may set in motion a series of events whereby we expend considerable normally unreimbursed resources to comply with your request, which we do gladly and which we subsidize, but only in order to see these treasured images actually included with the best quality obtainable in publications, educational projects, or other approved endeavors.  CPRR.org makes no additional charge for duplication of images or other content when obtained in digital format by Licensee via the Internet under this agreement and actually used as specified in the application, but to avoid non-productive use of our extremely limited resources, please carefully decide which images you actually want and be certain that you have an adequate budget to be able to afford the images you request prior to submitting your application, as you are obligating yourself and the use fees will apply in full to each licensed image, even if you later  change your mind or decide not to reproduce a licensed image(s).  ORDERS ONLY! – ALL ORDERS FINAL! — Use the above link to "e-mail for permission" only after you have decided that you definitely will use the image(s) should your application be approved and you are certain that you wish to commit yourself by placing a firm order for a "License to Reproduce Still Images."  [If you are being paid to work on a project, please understand that we won't do for free what you are being paid to do! The use fee surcharge for research, including but not limited to image selection from a general description is $250/hour, with one free hour per image licensed.]   Serious inquiries only. Please don't burden our very limited resources with unproductive, speculative, tentative, or incomplete requests that fail to completely specify your exact requirements or which reflect your failure to decide in advance whether you actually wish to license the requested image(s), or to examine the Use Fee Schedule. In order to penalize squandering of our scarce resources (and even if a use fee waiver or discount was granted) in the event that you fail to use the content or modification of this website prepared and/or made available in response to your request, you agree to pay in full all applicable undiscounted fees and penalties. Failing to use the above link (#3) to "e-mail for permission" to send e-mails relating to permissions to us (or otherwise failing to follow or circumventing the 1-2-3 ordering instructions stated above) may cause a delay, but shall not relieve you of any legal obligation, and clicking any e-mail link on this website or sending any e-mail or other message to us relating to permissions shall be legally equivalent to clicking on the "I AGREE — e-mail to place an order for a license to reproduce still images" link at the bottom of the orders page. You may not place conditional orders, including but not limited to that you may not place an order for one image dependent upon the availability of another image, and must accept and pay for all images requested that are available. From the time that you first write to us, until your order is completed, you must continuously monitor your e-mail and respond immediately to our messages, if any, in case you wish to supply us with additional information concerning your order; if our receipt of your response is delayed, or we are otherwise acting upon incomplete information, you are responsible for charges that could have been avoided if we had received complete information from you and/or an immediate response. For example, but not in limitation of the forgoing, you may not delay responding to our message explaining how we plan to proceed based on our understanding of your request, or explaining a need to substitute an available image for one that is unavailable, and then later reject the completed order. As a further example, if you fail to identify specific requested images and instead inquire about images that match a description, you are committing yourself to license and use all of the images that match your stated description that we offer to license, unless you tell us in your original inquiry that you wish to limit the request to a specific maximum number of images, and/or specify which images that match your inquiry you know about but do not want, or already have and do not want duplicated.  Abandoned application fee:  FAQ There is no application fee, but you will be charged a one hundred U.S. dollar non-refundable abandoned application fee per e-mail for EACH AND EVERY E-MAILed "Request for License to Reproduce Still Images," permissions inquiry, follow-up, or other permissions related e-mail that we receive from you that fails to ultimately result in your licensing at least one image or other requested content, including but not limited to e-mails related to image selection, questions, billing, and collection of fees, except that no abandoned application fee will apply if you submit a complete application in your first e-mail but none of the images that you request are available for licensing.   Also, we may, at our sole discretion, deem your application to have been abandoned and charge the abandoned application fee if you fail to respond to each of our e-mails within 72 hours, if you reject a license which we approve in response to your request, fail to make timely payment as required herein, or tell us that you do not want a license.  Customized image non-use penalty:  Additionally, in the event that we rescan and/or reprocess a requested image(s) in response to your request for a high resolution version, a different size or format, or other variation from the online image file displayed on this website ("customized image"), and/or in an attempt to supply you in our sole discretion with the best possible image quality and you then fail to live up to your obligation to use the requested image, thereby wasting our resources, you agree to pay liquidated damages of five hundred U.S. dollars ($500) per image for non-use of each such customized image which you fail to use, not subject to fee waiver, in addition to the use fee and any other applicable charges.  All fees listed are subject to change, are non-refundable, are subject to a fifty U.S. dollar per image minimum fee (one hundred dollars per image minimum fee for customized images of regular size, up to 8 1/2" x 11", or for customized digital images of oversized originals which must be rescanned as multiple image areas and then digitally reassembled, per each scanned image area of the original up to 8 1/2" x 11"), and may be reduced or waived in special circumstances, when requested in advance at the time of application, at the sole discretion of CPRR.org and Licensor, and contingent on compliance with all terms of this User Agreement, but shall not be waived if use is without permission. Each additional or subsequently published or copyrighted edition shall constitute a separate reuse, and any rights specifically requested and licensed "for the duration of the work's copyright" shall apply only to reprinting or rebroadcasting of that unmodified copyrighted single edition as authorized by the license, and not to any later edition, unless an additional license for reuse is obtained for each subsequently published or copyrighted later edition. The use fee for research access to the CPRR.org website for commercial use is $1,000/month per project with a six month minimum which amount may be applied to the cost of any images or other content licensed hereunder for publication use for the project; specifically, but not in limitation hereof, if the commercial use involves the creation of multiple copyrighted works, each such work is considered a separate project.  If you find that none of the categories in the Use Fee Schedule apply to your intended use, you do not understand the use fee schedule, you are uncertain as to the applicable fee, or you wish us to consider your request for a use fee which differs from the fee schedule, you MUST specify in your application a specific proposed use fee dollar amount that you are offering.  If the requested information needed to determine which of several possibly applicable levels of fees should apply is not provided in the application, the higher fee shall apply. If the use fee is unspecified herein or in the fee schedule and not agreed in advance, it shall be one hundred dollars per image per month.  Rush: Add fifty percent to the stated fees for rush requests.  E-mails flagged for special treatment with high priority/importance headers or the like or requests that images be made available for use in seven days or less from the date of the request, or "as soon as possible" also constitute rush requests.   We hope that you will be patient as we attempt to fill orders as quickly as possible, often succeeding in doing so on internet time, usually within a few days at most, and typically much more quickly than any available alternative brick and mortar source for historic images, but the only way for us to really know if we will be able to successfully fill your order, or how long it will take, is to actually complete the order, and if you are pestering us it means that you are in a rush, so inquiring of us if we will be able to fill an order you placed or how soon, less than one week after placing the order, generally results in our dropping everything else to finish your order, so will of necessity force your order to be made into a rush order and in such circumstances, the rush charge will apply.  Our acceptance of any request, inquiry, or order placed by you is expressly made conditional on your assent to the terms set forth in this User Agreement, and not those in your request, inquiry, order, or e-mail.  Buyer beware: You authorize us to act upon any e-mail you send to us requesting permission or permissions or making inquiry as constituting an order, whether the e-mail is formal or informal, complete or incomplete, including requests posed as questions, inquiries, or sent using e-mail links on other pages of our website which provide sufficient information to allow us to process the request (and to choose an image fulfilling the request in the event that a specific image is not requested) which shall constitute a binding order requesting a license to reproduce still images.  [We know this may seem strange to you, but our policy really is necessary because due to factual, historical, legal and/or technical issues we often have to research requests, search for images, and/or rescan and/or reprocess images in order for us to respond to your e-mail and/or determine if we will be able to successfully fulfill your licensing request, and as a result we may be almost done with your order before we can answer your e-mail.]  For example, if you write informally to ask us about using one or more images that you saw on the CPRR.org website and ask what the request will cost, while not specifying a price limit, you are thereby requesting and authorizing us to fill your order at a price consistent with the Use Fee Schedule and the terms and conditions of this User Agreement, and to let you know the total amount due for the license by sending you an electronic invoice which you are obligated to pay.  Please pay close attention to what is written on this page:  We want to avoid nasty surprises and disputes, so we are giving you fair warning that this is an e-commerce website with possibly unfamiliar policies and procedures (for example, this Museum is not like a stock photograph agency) and that clicking on the "e-mail CPRR.org for permission" link above (or otherwise communicating with us about permissions) means "buy a license now."  Use fee(s) are non-refundable and shall be fully and promptly paid at the earlier of the times of your receipt of (1) the licensed content; (2) a grant of permission of access thereto for the purpose requested; or, (3) our invoice requesting payment in response to your request, and shall be immediately due and payable in advance of publication or other licensed use, shall be by check signed by the Licensee, in U.S. dollars, drawn on a United States bank, or sent by electronic funds transfer for the benefit of the Licensee, and payment shall be delivered to us or the Licensor's financial institution within ten calendar days, according to the instructions you will receive. Payment terms are within our sole discretion. You may not delay payment, for example, until a book is finalized and ready to go to press. Please don't squander our limited resources by making us chase after you for payment. Debt Collection: In the event any payment due hereunder is not made in full within ten calendar days, you agree to pay all costs and expenses, regardless of the particular nature thereof and whether incurred with or without suit or arbitration and before or after the judgment, which may be incurred by us in connection with the enforcement of any of our rights hereunder, or any right arising out of the breach hereof, or your default on timely payment, including but not limited to collection agency charges and commissions, reasonable expenses incurred in securing payment, court and/or arbitration costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees. Default/Late Charge/Interest:  Any amount due and not paid (for any reason) in full within ten (10) calendar days shall be in default and subject to a late charge immediately and monthly thereafter at the highest amount allowed by law, and we will additionally charge you interest on the unpaid balance at the highest percentage rate allowed by law. If Licensee sends payment by check mailed directly to the Licensor's financial institution, Licensee shall also immediately fax a copy of the check to the Licensor.  Redelivery: CPRR.org has very limited storage for custom images, so if you are notified by us that one or more licensed images that you requested are ready for download, it is your responsibility to immediately retrieve them before they are deleted from our web server. (Requests to re-upload or resend licensed custom images that you have lost or neglected to timely retrieve, if still available, will incur a redelivery use fee surcharge of twenty-five dollars per image, not subject to fee waiver.) In the event that you encounter any difficulty with licensed image files, other content, or the receipt or download thereof, you must notify us by e-mail within thirty-six hours.   There will be an additional thirty U.S. dollar fee for returned checks or chargebacks which will also trigger abandoned application and non-use penalties, as applicable.  Permission is subject to the payment by Licensee of all applicable fees, and the presence in your work of proper credit(s) and all legal notices required herein including but not limited to a proper notice of our copyright.  In instances where payment is due, permission shall be granted conditionally upon the successful deposit by Licensor in the Licensor's account and clearance of such payment check, or the deposit in the Licensor's account of funds electronically transferred for the benefit of the Licensor, evidenced thereby, and a photocopy or facsimile of such check or record of such electronic funds transfer or ultimate electronic deposit shall confirm the identity of the applicable Licensee and Licensor and reconfirm the Licensee's acceptance of this entire Agreement.  Such license shall be null and void as if never issued upon violation of this user agreement, including but not limited to non-payment or lack of timely payment.  The publication of such image(s) or other content shall also further reconfirm the Licensee's acceptance of this entire Agreement without modification.  Permission for such non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, one-time, one-use shall be limited to publication within a period of twelve months following the publication or release date specified in the application, or if unspecified in the application, from the date of our approval, except in the case of public display or performance, including but not limited to broadcast television or Internet use, which use shall not exceed the lesser of the time specified in your application or in the license granted or invoice therefor, or if unspecified then 60 days, and thereafter electronic access shall cease, which in the case of Internet use shall include erasing all digital copies and removing all links thereto. "North American or One Country" rights shall be understood to include schools for North American countries' or the one country's citizens and their dependents abroad. The rights licensed shall be limited to only those rights specifically requested and granted and shall not include other or unspecified "derivative rights."  In the case of images licensed for single print or transparency copy exhibition or display the term of the license is the lesser of the duration of the exhibition or five years. The term "TV broadcast" includes standard broadcast on commercial or public television stations as well as non-standard television including only any combination of basic cable, pay cable, video on-demand, pay-per-view, and/or fiber optic or satellite television, and does not include publication in a fixed, permanent, or physical medium including but not limited to disk, DVD, or videotape. For video use of still images, there is an additional charge for each home video format such as VHS or DVD in addition to the broadcast use fee.   Permission for any subsequent use must be obtained separately.  Permission with fee waiver if requested and granted for students' school related project use is for non-publication educational use only during the current semester and does not grant permission for publication in print, electronic format, on the Internet, or otherwise.  If you are requesting a fee waiver on behalf of a non-profit organization, to assist us in evaluating the request, please state in your application whether or not the organization charges the public for its product or service, and whether or not you are an unpaid volunteer.  You are obligated to purchase a license under the terms and condition hereof for any image which you download from this website without permission or in violation of this User Agreement, should we decide in our sole discretion to offer you such a license.  The CPRR Museum operates entirely on-line, communicates exclusively via the Internet, provides images as electronic commerce, and has no staff to handle phone calls or requestor supplied forms or paperwork; consequently, we provide an electronic invoice and IRS W-9 form only, and telephone support or billing, invoicing, or other documentation in paper hardcopy form by U.S. mail, fax, or otherwise, are not available.  Rights licensed are as set forth in the electronic invoice that you receive from us. We must reject and are unable to respond to your supplementary comments, paperwork, or other communications received purporting to restate or confirm a licensing transaction (which has already been fully documented by our electronic invoice, IRS W-9 form, and User Agreement) but which actually instead mentions additional unpurchased rights neither requested in the application nor stated in the invoice (such as mentioning web use when only book or magazine print rights were purchased and specified in the invoice, or mentioning video/DVD rights when only tv broadcast rights were purchased and specified in the invoice, or mentioning worldwide rights when only North American or one country rights were purchased and specified in the invoice, etc.), and/or containing terms which differ from this User Agreement, and our failure to respond and issue a revised electronic invoice signifies our rejection of any attempted unilateral modification of the licensed use rights, invoice and/or the terms as set forth in herein and that we decline to license unpurchased additional rights.  Please contact us, again, via e-mail and explicitly ask to purchase additional rights, if at any time after receiving an invoice you decide that you wish to purchase additional use rights that are not specified in the invoice.  You agree to use only the provided permissions e-mail address (or other e-mail links on this website, as appropriate) and not to telephone us or content contributors with permissions or other requests, nor to attempt to circumvent the provisions of this agreement, and telephone calls placed in disregard of the foregoing will be charged at two hundred fifty dollars per telephone call. FAQ  A printed version of your application e-mail(s) requesting permission, constituting your Request for License for Still Images, and/or facsimile or other electronic records shall be admissible in arbitration, judicial, or administrative proceedings to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.  Your act of sending such email(s) to us whether directly or indirectly and/or your clicking your e-mail send button indicates your intent thereby to attach your electronic signature to such e-mailed application requesting permission or other communication and to this entire User Agreement.  Licensee shall also supply Licensor within thirty calendar days of the date of publication with two complementary donated entire copies of the best edition of any written or published work, computer file, or software, including but not limited to book, article, video, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM products in which the licensed image(s) or other content is included, for inclusion in the CPRR Museum; a digital copy shall be additionally be provided to us if the best edition is not in digital form and a digital form of the work or a portion thereof is available or is created in the process of preparation of the work; in the event that such copies are not timely received, we may, in our sole discretion, obtain such copies from any available source, at any time, at your expense.  (If licensed for Web use, Licensee shall provide access to the locations(s) where the work including the licensed image(s) or other content is located, instead of delivering physical copies.)  Permission, if granted, to a licensee for use on the Internet or other electronic medium which operates by providing digital images does not grant permission for end user capture nor downloading of such images, nor subsequent use thereof, nor any use not permitted herein, nor use beyond the limited term of this license, does not grant permission for images to be posted on any website which does not prohibit their capture, downloading, or subsequent use, and does not grant permission unless both of the following conditions are met:  (1) the CPRR.org copyright notice is prominently displayed; and, (2) that such capture and/or downloading, and such subsequent use without the separate permission of CPRR.org are both contractually prohibited in the licensee's legally binding end user licensing agreement.  If a licensed image(s) or other content is published electronically, including but not limited to when using html or any other format, the images shall be at a low screen resolution only, not in excess of five hundred pixels wide, and the software or webpage code shall be written so as to prevent unauthorized copying, downloading, saving, or other capture of images or other licensed content, and so as to require that the end user must click to indicate their consent and acceptance of the end user license agreement prior to being given access to the licensed image(s) or other content. CPRR.org (or other owner or rights holder, as applicable) shall retain its own right to reproduce such image or other content, or to grant others such permission, and shall retain ownership, copyright, and all other tangible and intangible rights (including but not limited to ownership of originals, scans, files, data, negatives, digital media, and photoduplicates or copies thereof whether photographic, reprographic, electronic, digital or otherwise, [other than tangible rights for those final permitted reproductions published by Licensee under this license for distribution to others] which if not retained by Licensor shall be returned to Licensor upon expiration of the limited term of the license, and may not be salvaged).  You may retain image(s) obtained from us under the provisions of this paragraph only for the licensed duration and limited purposes for which you obtained permission, but may possess or use a only single copy of each such digital image on a single computer and on a single hard drive, solid state drive, or other computer medium, must retain possession at all times, may not distribute such digital image(s) on a computer network except as explicitly permitted, and will promptly return and not retain any copies of such image(s) when no longer needed for the purpose stated in your request for permission.  Licensee acknowledges that permission if granted is only for publication or other use as specified in the application during the limited term of the license, does not constitute a transfer of ownership, nor a first sale, and such permission is granted only to the extent of the Licensor's ownership of rights related to the image(s) or other content, and is not a rights clearance for third party rights, property, images or other content included on this website, or derivative works therefrom, which clearance licensee must obtain separately from such third party or parties when required, and our permission grants you no rights until you also obtain all third party permissions and releases that may be required, copies of which you agree to provide to us upon request.  In the event that you are requesting licensing of such a third party image from us rather than directly from the third party, or our derivative work therefrom, for convenience, because such image is available in digital format from us, or to take advantage of image processing or digital restoration that we may have performed on such third party image, and are concerned about the total licensing cost including possible additional use fees which may be payable to one or more such third parties, please include in your application a request for a specific proposed adjustment in our use fee to partially offset such additional use fees to be paid to one or more such third parties, which request we will be pleased to consider on a case by case basis.  No license or right under any patent or trademark will be granted nor shall such be construed as being conferred hereunder by implication, estoppel or otherwise.  Any permission granted is not transferable and Licensee shall not sublicense or permit others to reproduce the licensed image or other content, and shall refer such requests by others for permission to reproduce to the Licensor.  The Licensor for CPRR.org is Radiological_Imaging Corporation, a California Corporation the copyright owner of this Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum website compilation, which has sole authority to publish, operate, and license this website and its content. Licensee acknowledges that CPRR.org or the licensor is not granting permission on behalf of nor acting as agent for any other owner or rights holder.  Licensee shall maintain the integrity of images or other content used, and use shall not be unlawful, misleading, defamatory, ridiculing, libelous, or otherwise inappropriate, altered from the original appearance, form, meaning, or intent of the photographer or author, nor compete or detract from existing or planned use by CPRR.org, nor in a manner which suggests an association with or endorsement of any product or service, nor in an historically inaccurate manner or publication, nor damaging to our or the rightsholder's reputation. We reserve the right to invoice parts of an order separately, and we are not responsible for pricing, typographical or other errors in any offer on this website or from us and we reserve the right to cancel at any time any orders resulting from such errors, or for any other reason, or for no reason.   Images will be obtained over the Internet in RGB jpeg format as displayed on this website, or at our discretion in tiff format, unless otherwise agreed in advance, and subject to availability and limited resources, delays, and cancellation, notwithstanding any deadline noted in the application, nor shall preferences (if any) including those regarding image resolution, format, or delivery method specified in the application be considered requirements.  Any needed conversion of digital images into photographic prints or need to burn CD's or DVD's shall be your responsibility and at your expense.  Consequently, please do not request high resolution or tiff format files (which are often in the 2-24 MB size range) if you have a slow or unreliable internet connection and would have difficulty downloading large files, as there will be an additional seventy-five dollar CD-ROM fee (per CD-ROM) if you request images on CD and we are able to comply, however there will be no charge for delivery via CD-ROM if we should elect at our sole discretion to use this alternate method of delivery, such as for an order sufficiently large as to exceed our on-line server storage capacity.   CPRR.org reserves the right to restrict the reproduction of materials due to conservation and preservation concerns, and the right to charge additional fees as determined on a case by case basis.  Licensee acknowledges that web image preview is approximate and agrees that it has independently determined the "as is" image content, quality, and format of licensed content as displayed on this website to be suitable for its intended use, understands that images created with extensive restoration artwork and composite images being computer generated do not physically exist in a form that could be rescanned at higher resolution, and understands that requested reformatting will not result in a change in the actual image resolution.  Deadbeats: Your reputation will suffer and you may become responsible for forcing us to discontinue offering these historic images if you become a deadbeat by failing to make prompt and full payment as required within ten calendar days or if you attempt to repudiate this contract or your obligations hereunder, you consent to publication on this website and elsewhere of your identify as a deadbeat and associated information for failure to make timely payment, agree that your sole remedy for such publication if in error shall be removal of the error from our webserver following your delivery to us of proof of timely payment of the invoiced amount such as a cancelled check paid to the licensor, and you agree to pay liquidated damages in the amount of one thousand times the invoiced amount if you initiate or threaten us with legal action or threaten or attempt to damage our reputation in an effort to avoid paying, deter collection efforts, or prevent publication or continued publication of your lack of timely payment. Spare yourself the embarrassment, and do not further waste our time and upset us by writing to tell us that you refuse to pay for your order, or to attempt to justify or rationalize such intentional misconduct.  Degraded condition: Licensee acknowledges that 19th century images such as 3 1/2" stereograph albumen prints are of limited resolution and are generally degraded, containing various imperfections of image and mount due to aging, and damaged, including but not limited to foxing, spotting, chipping, cracking, abrasion, folding, tearing, gouging, emulsion loss, soiling, staining, glue streaking, discoloration, motion blurring, darkening, fading (often uneven in degree over various parts of an image), and cropping (often inconsistent among various prints of the same image), and acknowledges that images rescanned or photoduplicated from an original as a result of its request may require additional processing or restoration, which may or may not be successful, that there will be digital artifacts if lossy compression is used (for example with the jpeg format), and that there will be degraded tonality and dynamic range especially if multiple generation analog (photographic or printing) or lossy digital processing (compression or reduced bit depth) or copying steps are used. Oversized historic images, such as maps or prints, often have folds (many of these were published as folded inserts bound into a printed book volume), they typically have tears and slight image loss or discoloration at some of the folds, and usually will need to be scanned in multiple pieces (each of 8 1/2" x 11" or less in size) and the areas separately scanned must be laboriously digitally reassembled into the whole image. Because digital image scanners introduce slight geometric distortions, there may be slight misalignments and discontinuities where separately scanned areas of an oversized image adjoin, which we attempt, but may not be completely successful in avoiding or correcting. Use of certain types of digital image compression, such as the discrete cosine transform used for JPEG images to reduce their size, results in some loss of image quality and introduction of artifacts, which does not occur when a less efficient "lossless" image compression method is used, for example the LZW algorithm used with the TIFF image format, or lossless wavelet compression used with the JPEG2000 format. If a requested image is of lesser quality than another similar available image, we may, in our sole discretion, substitute the better quality image. FAQ  If a requested image is not available for the intended use, we may substitute a similar image that is available.  Licensee acknowledges that CPRR.org recommends entirely digital color or duotone publication methods, and acknowledges that excessive magnification, extra processing steps including conversion to a different image format or conversion to monochrome or use of photographic rather than digital methods will not improve and may adversely affect image quality and/or resolution.  Licensee shall utilize highest quality imaging and reproduction methods that do not degrade image quality, including but not limited to color, contrast, or resolution, and do not introduce artifacts, including but not limited to aliasing or Moiré patterns, and shall reproduce images at a sufficiently small size suitable for the available limited resolution so that reproduced images do not appear to be unsharp.  Licensee acknowledges that higher resolution print publication requires images to be printed smaller than the size of the same image when displayed on a lower resolution computer screen.  A license permitting publication is only a grant of access to the image(s) or other content(s) for publication use in consideration for a payment ("use fee") actually received, and Licensee agrees that CPRR.org or other Licensor has no obligation to take any action on Licensee's behalf to assist Licensee, nor to provide any product or service, that our responsibility ends once we have provided both permission and access to the requested image(s) or other content, and that all applicable fees or charges regardless of how described are use fees, not charges for products or services.  Licensee shall be solely responsible for specifying and obtaining any needed services, and for any costs incurred on their behalf, whether by Licensor or third parties for photoduplication, restoration, processing, production, or otherwise and is encouraged to seek the services of expert service bureau, photographic, and/or printing companies for such services.  All paragraphs and provisions of this User Agreement shall apply to this license agreement and to you as License.  Important: Licensee shall take all steps necessary to assure that the terms and conditions of this User Agreement shall similarly apply to and bind any user of any work created by Licensee or under this license that includes or is derived from images or other content obtained from this website or under this User Agreement, which obligation in the case of such Internet use shall include but is not limited to placing a link to this User Agreement on each web page containing such work in addition to and accompanying the credit line specified below, and obtaining each such user's agreement hereto.  Licensee shall provide full and proper credit for the source of images or other content used, and state in an accompanying caption any modifications that have been made such as cropping, detailing, or tinting, other than restoration to original appearance.  (The source for photographs shall include, if known, the name of the photographer, the publisher if different from the photographer, the photograph negative number and title, and the name of the collection from which the image or other content was obtained.)
A credit line shall appear in close proximity to each permitted CPRR.org reproduction, adjacent to any such image, and in any product that you create that includes any image or other content licensed hereunder, which shall include the following, without quotes, with the copyright symbol preceding the year of Licensee's publication:
"Courtesy Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, © 2024 CPRR.org".
For Web use, the credit line shall include a link on "CPRR.org" and on each licensed image to the Uniform Resource Locator, <http://CPRR.org>.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." —Napoleon  Bonaparte

Severe additional penalty for publication of images or other content stolen from this website; unlimited liability for subsequent infringement:  In the event that you do not obtain permission and instead infringe and/or violate this agreement by misappropriating and/or publishing unauthorized pirated copies of images or other content obtained from this website, or by enabling, permitting, facilitating, encouraging, promoting, soliciting, assisting, inducing, instructing, or encouraging others to infringe, a copyright violation and a trespass, conversion, or the like, which harms the CPRR Museum, for example by causing donors to be hesitant or unwilling to allow their images or other content to be displayed on the Internet, or if you publish images or other content prior to making full payment of all applicable fees, or without including the legal notices and credits as required herein, you agree to pay a penalty to CPRR.org for each unlicensed use, in addition to any actual and/or statutory damages, expenses, and attorney's fees, etc. which may apply, in the amount of fifty (50) times the undiscounted commercial fee for licensed use in accordance with this user agreement, agree to assign exclusively to CPRR.org copyright and all other ownership rights, including but not limited to physical, contractual, and intellectual property rights in any resulting work(s) which contain(s) or which is derived from our intellectual property, this website or its images or other content, and agree to immediately cease and desist any and all infringement of our copyright or other proprietary rights, and of such rights of any third party for which you shall also remain liable.  Additionally, please take special care to understand that in addition to direct infringement by your theft and republication of our intellectual property, or if you otherwise violate the terms of this license, you agree that such violation shall result in your unlimited liability for all resulting use and/or "secondary" infringement by third and subsequent parties who obtain our intellectual property from or through you, or as a result of your actions, and you will be held fully responsible (including penalties) – whether or not you have knowledge of their actions at the time, whether or not you benefit financially, and whether or not you have the right and/or ability to supervise or police such subsequent resulting uses – especially should repeated and unstoppable use by others result, and you are specifically prohibited from taking any action that would permit, encourage, enable, or facilitate such unpermitted or viral distribution, including but not limited to, by others who are not a party to this agreement. [i.e., If you give away our images or other content without our permission and/or in violation of this agreement, or encourage others to take them, you agree to pay as specified in this agreement for all resulting subsequent uses by others which are not authorized by us, whether lawful or unlawful, including those resulting uses which you and/or we may, as a result of your actions, then be powerless to control or prevent, and possibly may not even discover until after the fact.]  Additionally, in the event that your actions or inducement in violation of this User Agreement, or of applicable law including but not limited to copyright, trade secret, or computer misuse statutes result in our being deprived of our exclusive rights to ownership and/or control of the data and/or intellectual property we have created in this website and its digital images and/or other content IN WHOLE OR SUBSTANTIAL PART, or of the value thereof, or which would make such intellectual property unlicensable, you agree to pay us liquidated damages FAQ in the amount of the greater of five million U.S. dollars, the amount of copyright infringement statutory damages per image or other content for each and every infringement, the appraised market value of this website absent such actions, and the estimated commercial cost to create a website of like complexity and content.

"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully." Samuel Johnson, ghostwriting for forgery convict, Reverend Dr. William Dodd, 1777.

LEGAL NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT
Please read this Legal Notice of Infringement ("takedown notice") which applies to you only if you have violated this User Agreement, or made any use of this website in any way not specifically authorized and permitted herein, in which case you acknowledge timely receipt hereof, which you agree is sufficient notice, at such time as you commenced violation of this User Agreement.  Additionally, if you have received Legal Notice of Infringement from us via e-mail or otherwise, this Notice and the entire User Agreement is included therein by reference, and you should also reread this entire User Agreement.   This Notice is authorized on behalf of CPRR.org, the owner of copyright and other proprietary rights to this website, its images, and other content. Your activities in violation of this User Agreement constitute infringement of the exclusive rights to make copies and to distribute copies and constitute an infringement of copyright and/or other intellectual property rights, as well as a violation of the User Agreement which is a binding contract entered into whenever use is made of our website.  We request that you immediately take all action as may be appropriate to suspend these illegal activities.  On behalf of the respective rights owners including but not limited to the owners of the exclusive rights to all copyrighted material at issue in this notice, CPRR.org hereby states that CPRR.org has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained in violation of this User Agreement is not authorized by the copyright owners or other rights holders, their respective agents, or the law.  CPRR.org hereby states, under penalty of perjury under the laws of California and under the laws of the United States, that the information in this notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that CPRR.org is authorized to act on behalf of the owners of the exclusive rights which are being infringed as set out in this notification.  Consequently, CPRR.org has never authorized the material to be disclosed or published by you or your user(s) and display of the material could result in being held liable for violating our proprietary rights.  Your continued dissemination of this material is in violation of CPRR.org's statutory, contractual, and other rights.  Therefore, CPRR.org demands that you immediately return and not retain any copies of and cease and desist from disseminating the material obtained in violation of this User Agreement, including but not limited to all locations where the information may be available from all computers, web sites, and servers under your or your company's ownership or control.  Please immediately remove the offending material, and notify us in writing that you have removed the material from your web site(s) or other unauthorized location.  CPRR.org reserves its right to seek immediate equitable, injunctive, and other relief, including damages claims.  This notice shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights or remedies, which are expressly reserved. We thank you for your courtesy and immediate cooperation in this matter.  Your prompt response is requested so that the illegal infringing activity can be stopped.

TAKEDOWN NOTICES: Please don't assume that you can pirate images from this website with impunity, believing incorrectly that this won't be discovered or that copyright infringement doesn't routinely result in substantial civil damage awards ("not less than $750 or more than $30,000" statutory damages per downloaded file). Because of the way internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Picsearch find images, pirating images from the CPRR.org website and placing our images on your website will in all likelihood be – in effect – like advertising to the whole world that you are giving away our pictures. When we discover such unlawful piracy and send a legal takedown notice – and particularly if you fail to respond to the notice – it is likely that in order to protect itself from legal liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC 5, §512(c)(A)(iii) & (g), your Internet Service Provider will remove your website (and possibly cancel your account). This is an unpleasant and undesirable result, but it is the way that copyright law works, so please don't pirate images, and never ignore legal notices asking you to remove pirated images – you need to take remedial action and respond promptly when caught. You agree to immediately respond and take remedial action should you receive a takedown notice (whether formal or informal) from us asking that one or more pirated images or other content be removed, and also to promptly advise us should you dispute any facts as stated therein.

Also, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security provide the following official notice when taking enforcement action to shut down criminal copyright infringement on the internet:
"It is unlawful to reproduce or distribute copyrighted material ... without authorization - even when done for free over the Internet. Individuals who willfully distribute or download copyrighted material risk criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. 2319. First-time offenders convicted of criminal felony copyright laws will face up to five years in federal prison, restitution, forfeiture and a fine."

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SPRR Pass, 1873. Courtesy Peter and Helen Frusetta Collection.
Southern Pacific Railroad Pass with Liability Waiver, 1873.
Courtesy Peter and Helen Frusetta Collection.

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DONATIONS
Please donate pictures from your collection that you would like to see on the CPRR.org website by e-mailing them to us. Our biggest mailbox that is best for receiving large pictures is:
e-mail address to send donated pictures (See the FAQ about our preferred format, please don't send more than 60 megabytes of pictures in one day without making arrangements for us to empty the mailbox, and please don't send pictures to our other smaller e-mail addresses/inboxes which would overflow with pictures, thereby preventing us from receiving e-mail and causing e-mail to bounce back to the sender.)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN ALLOWING YOUR IMAGES OR OTHER ITEMS OR CONTENT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CPRR MUSEUM! 
[The following provisions are need to make sure that we have permission to make use of donated images, text, files, etc. — both now and in the future — and also to allow the CPRR Museum to endure and evolve, for example, to enable us to take full advantage of technological advances.]
  
YOU AGREE NOT TO SEND US ANYTHING THAT WE ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE, PUBLISH, AND/OR REPUBLISH  ROYALTY FREE.  BY SUBMITTING OR GRANTING US ACCESS, MAKING AVAILABLE, USING ANY E-MAIL LINK ON THIS WEBSITE, TRANSMITTING VIA E-MAIL, ANSWERING OR COMMENTING UPON OUR COMUNICATION(S), WRITINGS OR OTHER CONTENT, OR OTHERWISE SENDING, CONTRIBUTING, DONATING, PUBLISHING, REVIEWING, SELLING, PROVIDING TO US WHETHER DIRECTLY OR VIA AN INTERMEDIARY(IES), WRITING TO OR ABOUT US OR OUR CONTENT, OR BY GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE MATERIAL, CONTENT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND/OR INFORMATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO TEXT, WEB PAGES, IMAGES, MAPS, NAMES, AFFILIATIONS, DATA, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, COMMENTS, POSTS, QUESTIONS, COUNTEROFFERS TO AND/OR CRITICISMS OF AND/OR SUGGESTED MODIFICATIONS TO THIS USER AGREEMENT, AND/OR FILES, YOU ARE REPRESENTING AND WARRANTING THAT YOU ARE THE OWNER AND HAVE AUTHORIZATION TO CONTROL AND DISTRIBUTE SUCH MATERIAL, CONTENT AND/OR INFORMATION OR THE LIKE AND EXERCISE ALL SUCH RIGHTS, THAT SUCH MATERIAL IS NONPROPRIETARY AND NOT PRIVATE, THAT YOUR SENDING OR MAKING AVAILABLE TO US AND OUR PUBLICATION OR OUR LICENSING TO OTHERS OF SUCH MATERIAL IN WHOLE OR PART, IN ANY MANNER, FOR ANY PURPOSE, DOES NOT AND WILL NOT INFRINGE YOUR OR ANY THIRD PARTY'S COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OR RIGHT OF PUBLICITY OR PRIVACY NOR VIOLATE ANY APPLICABLE LAW, STATUTE, ORDINANCE OR REGULATION, NOR OBLIGATE US TO PUBLISH THE IMAGE OR OTHER CONTENT, AND YOU ARE GRANTING TO US A RELEASE AND AN UNRESTRICTED, PERPETUAL, PERMANENT, IRREVOCABLE, TRANSFERABLE, SUBLICENSABLE (THROUGH MULTIPLE TIERS), NON-EXCLUSIVE, UNCONDITIONAL, FULLY PAID-UP, ROYALTY FREE LICENSE TO ALL RIGHTS TO SUCH MATERIAL, DEPICTIONS OF YOU AND/OR OTHER PERSONS, CONTENT AND/OR INFORMATION THAT GRANTS PERMISSION FOR USE ANYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, IN ANY MANNER, AND FOR ANY PURPOSE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE, PUBLISH, PUBLICLY PERFORM, PUBLICLY DISPLAY, ADAPT, SELL, LICENSE, DERIVE REVENUE OR OTHER REMUNERATION FROM, AND/OR DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF WORKS CONTAINING THE CONTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, SELECTIONS THEREFROM, TO INCORPORATE SUCH CONTENT INTO OTHER MATERIALS OR WORKS, TRANSLATIONS AND OTHER DERIVATIVE WORKS AND/OR EDITIONS, FOREVER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FULL TERM, AND ALL RENEWALS AND EXTENSIONS THEREOF), INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND RELATED LAWS, IN ANY FORMAT OR MEDIA NOW KNOWN, NOT CURRENTLY KNOWN, HEREAFTER KNOWN, OR LATER DEVELOPED, AND THE RIGHT TO LICENSE OR AUTHORIZE OTHERS TO DO, LICENSE, OR AUTHORIZE ANY OR ALL OF THE FOREGOING, AND (IF YOU ARE THE AUTHOR OR RIGHTS OWNER OF SUBMITTED PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CONTENT) THAT (AS IS COMMON PRACTICE WHEN SUBMITTING MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS) YOU HEREBY CONVEY AND ASSIGN COPYRIGHT TO CPRR.ORG AS FOLLOWS [The donor of such previously unpublished work does hereby sell, assign, and transfer to CPRR.org, its successors and assigns, the entire right, title and interest in and to the copyright in the work and any registrations and copyright applications relating thereto and any renewals and extensions thereof, and in and to all works based upon, derived from, or incorporating the work, and in and to all income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due or payable with respect thereto, and in and to all causes of action, either in law or in equity for past, present, or future infringement based on the copyrights, and in and to all rights corresponding to the foregoing throughout the world, and agrees to execute all papers and to perform such other proper acts as we may deem necessary to secure for CPRR.org or its designee the rights herein assigned.], AND (IF APPLICABLE) THAT ALL SO-CALLED MORAL RIGHTS IN SUCH MATERIAL HAVE BEEN WAIVED. YOU AGREE NOT TO SEND US OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY OR PHOTOGRAPHS, MESSAGES, OR INFORMATION REGARDING ANY OBJECT OF ANTIQUITY TAKEN, OR COLLECTION MADE, ON LANDS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE UNITED STATES, WITHOUT A PERMIT, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES ACT OF 1906 (16 USC 431-433), OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED IN VIOLATION OF APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATIONS. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL NOT TO DONATE WHAT YOU DO NOT OWN BECAUSE DOING SO MIGHT EXPOSE YOU TO LEGAL LIABILITY FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER LAW OR RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, AND YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, HOLD HARMLESS, AND INDEMNIFY US FROM ANY RESULTING COSTS, LIABILITY OR LOSS.  ANY SUBMISSIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, SUGGESTIONS, IDEAS, TECHNIQUES, CONCEPTS, KNOW-HOW OR OTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED  BY CPRR.ORG SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY BE FREELY USED, EDITED, MODIFIED, ADAPTED, LINKED, TRANSLATED, DISSEMINATED, PUBLISHED, DELETED, LICENSED, DISCLOSED, AND/OR DISTRIBUTED BY CPRR.ORG WITHOUT LIMITATION AND WITHOUT COMPENSATION, ANYWHERE, IN ANY MANNER, AND FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER. RETAIN COPIES OF ANY MATERIAL SENT TO US. MONETARY GIFTS ARE ALSO GREATLY APPRECIATED, SHALL BE UNRESTRICTED, AND MAY BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE. WE ARE NOT A PUBLIC ENTITY, NOT A FEDERAL OR OTHER GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY OR GRANT RECIPIENT, NOR IRC §501(c)(3) QUALIFIED. WE WANT TO PROVIDE SUITABLE CREDIT ON THIS WEBSITE FOR CONTENT DONATIONS WHENEVER POSSIBLE, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION — IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE CREDIT, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LET US KNOW YOUR NAME AND TELL US IF YOU HAVE A PREFERRED FORM OF CREDIT.
WHEN YOU SEND OR E-MAIL IT, IT'S OURS.

We appreciate receiving your comments, but we do not accept unsolicited suggestions, ideas, or proposals in order to avoid misunderstandings, because products, services, and features we develop might be similar or even identical to your idea. If you do send us your unsolicited idea, you agree that you are assigning its ownership to us as a donation, and we won't be able to consider it as your property or as confidential information, nor pay you for use of your suggestion, even if we use a similar idea.

"If you think technology can solve all your security problems, then you don’t understand either." Anonymous

PRIVACY AND SECURITY STATEMENT FAQ
We do not want, ask for, or need your private, sensitive, or proprietary information, so it is your responsibility and we are relying upon you to select, configure, operate, and secure your computer and networking equipment, operating system, Internet browser, e-mail and related software, etc. and also your trash to protect your own privacy and security generally to the extent that you prefer and to provide us only with information or content, including Loose Ships Might Sink Shipsbut not limited to pictures, text, files, e-mails, and personally identifiable, private, sensitive, or proprietary information, or the like, that you want us to have, publish at our sole discretion for all to see, and to use without restriction and in any mediumYou acknowledge and agree that when you send a message, inquiry, image, or other informaton or content to CPRR.org and/or CPRR.net, you should and do expect that it may be published online, since that is what websites and online discussion groups do, and that you do not and cannot possibly have any reasonable expectation of privacy. Consequently, the categories of personally identifiable information that we collect are limited to all such information that you choose to supply; the categories of third-parties with whom we may share such personally identifiable information are all individuals or entities with access to this website or other publication or communication; you may review any such content on this website and request changes by making a request to us by e-mail to Privacy@CPRR.org; and, you can periodically review this page or use an automated notification service to become aware of material changes to this privacy policy, as this privacy policy and any changes hereto are effective immediately, if not sooner. Because we take privacy seriously, we do not want to make unrealistic promises [such as we often encounter elsewhere], knowing that internet and corporate security are breached regularly, that e-mail is usually unprotected, software is flawed and computers are insecure, and remembering the history that even when the fate of civilization hung in the balance during WW II, neither Germany nor Japan could keep their most closely guarded secrets. "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." We like to be able to give credit on this website for donated images or other content if donors let us know their full name and/or their website URL.  By allowing you to use Paypal (formerly an eBay company) to send donations or use fee payments, we let you make electronic payment using a third party without revealing your credit card number or bank information to us, if that is your preference. By using this website, you are consenting to the monitoring of the usage of our web servers and other computer and communications equipment and of communications and services. SitemeterSince third parties provide a variety of valuable services such as e-mail, web hosting [Hostway/Valueweb], server logs and site statistics, linked websites, web logging of discussion e-mails, hit counters (that also tell us which pages visitors prefer), searching the museum's content and the web (from which we learn what subject matter visitors are seeking and what search methods are being used), internet security, advertising, fulfillment of book orders, etc., and we have little knowledge and no control over third-party's often inadequate and frequently changing privacy and security policies and practices (which unfortunately may not conform to their stated policies), we strongly recommend the following minimum general privacy and security measures (among others) which are not specific to this website, if and to the extent that you wish to maintain your privacy:  (1) refrain from ever using your actual name in an e-mail, e-mail address, or post, and instead use multiple different common name alter ego pseudonyms and e-mail accounts for your various online activities and personae, (2) use a proxy server or virtual private network that hides your actual IP address so that it does not appear in server log files; (3) if you enable cookies which many websites require to operate properly (but which we do not currently and never have used, but which may be used by third parties used by this website and elsewhere, including but not limited to search engines and advertisers), you should erase them at least daily, and also reset the browser history and cache, and you may utilize pop-up blocker software to prevent automatic opening of additional browser windows, if that is your preference; (by using or continuing to use this website, you agree to such use of cookies, and further agree to block any cookies or other files or content that you do not wish to receive); (4) use a browser that withholds the referring URL if you prefer this option, or open a new window before visiting a website;  (5) use a hardware stealth firewall;  (6) apply all current security patches to your computer's operating system and other software, after briefly waiting to determine that such update has no reported serious flaws, and regularly use up-to-date virus checking, spyware removal, backup, and disk repair software, and clearly understand that due to corruption, hard drive or solid state drive failure, or disaster you are very likely to eventually lose all information stored on your computer unless that information is regularly backed-up to multiple verified permanent onsite and offsite copies (current wisdom in the digital preservation world is you need six copies made in different ways on various media, in scattered locations to be safe);  (7) use security software that attempts to detect and prevent surreptitious capture and transmission of personal identifiers such as names, user-id's or numbers, e-mail addresses, unique machine specific identifiers such as your computer's permanent ethernet MAC (Media Access Control) address or cookie stored GUID (Globally Unique Identifier), or your actual IP address, and/or denies access to the internet by unauthorized software, and installs software only that is verified by cryptographic signature from a trusted source; (8) use high grade encryption for all private, if not all communications (but do not trust "secure" internet connections because SSL has been compromised by governments coercing certificate authorities); (9) never send or communicate to us confidential information or information not intended for publication, including but not limited to by using any e-mail address or link on this website; for example, do not use or include any name or e-mail address that you do not want to be published online; (10) never send us any personally identifiable information about a child unless it is being sent with the verifiable permission of the parent for the purpose of publication on this website where it will be publicly disclosed; (11) "do not follow unsolicited links received in e-mail, instant messages, web forums, or internet relay chat (IRC) channels," i.e., never click or rely upon an unverified link contained in an e-mail; do not trust the accuracy of an e-mail "from" address; and, never open executable files sent to you when they weren't asked for, no matter who [you think] sent them; (12) be aware that names and e-mail addresses appearing on websites are subject to abuse by spammers and cyberstalkers; (13) deactivate ActiveX, and Java in your Web browser if that functionality is not needed; (14) use only anonymizing search engines which do not log searches, and do not include private information in searches; and,  extremely important, (15) block all hosts that do not conform to your expectations of proper conduct, such as by using a combination of adblockers, curated DNS lookup, and hosts file entries.  Also avoid "Windows-style security."  No CPRR Museum security measures are needed to protect donated information or content or disclosed personally identifiable information and affiliation that we receive from being publicly viewed and/or distributed, as and notwithstanding any accompanying or other notice to the contrary, ALL INFORMATION THAT YOU SEND TO US IS INTENDED TO BE AVAILABLE TO BE MADE PUBLIC and to be available without restriction to CPRR.org and our licensees for publication on the internet or in any medium. In particular, and not in limitation of the forgoing, if you fail to use good judgment and unwisely choose to not exercise your right to remain silent and/or your right to legal counsel and instead send us information that is or may be misconstrued to be an admission of guilt to a criminal offense or otherwise incriminating, or if you self-publish such information, please anticipate the likelihood that it will come to the attention of law enforcement officials, possibly leading to arrest and prosecution, the likelihood that this may occur due to zealousness or overzealousness of members of the public reading your submitted information which has been published online, and do not expect that such information will be withheld from publication, censored by us, that you will be treated as a protected confidential source, or that electronic communications will somehow escape legal discovery. Also take note that once information is sent and/or published, including but not limited to comments or questions which are routinely posted online, removing the information from a news posting, webpage, etc. does not necessarily make it once again private or inaccessible because multiple online and offline archival copies typically remain, including those maintained by independent third parties such as internet service providers, search engines, internet archives, the Library of Congress, and possibly law enforcement/intelligence agencies. However, important purposes of this website and its news group, the CPRR Discussion Group, are newsgathering and dissemination, as well as comment and criticism, so we reserve our right to shield from discovery any information that we have at our sole discretion withheld from publication to protect a source, due to exercise of the editorial function, or in furtherance of such journalism. You acknowledge that the contributors to this website act as de facto citizen-journalists engaged in the public dissemination of news and information, and the promotion of discourse and advocacy regarding issues of national and historic importance. All your content (including but not limited to text and pictures) and information (including but not limited to your name and e-mail address) that you e-mail to us, post on our website, or otherwise submit or make available to us is for inclusion in the CPRR Museum on publicly accessible areas of this website, so this User Agreement provides that you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such content into other materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed, and that you assign to us copyright ownership of any such previously unpublished content. [To learn more about online privacy issues, see the American Library Association and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.] Access to or any use of this website or its content, or sending us any information or content, after May 24, 2018 by European Union users or subject to EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or providing us with personal data relating to individuals in the EU, is prohibited and you agree to pay us liquidated damages of €20 million plus attorney's fees for each violation of this prohibition, and such prohibited access to or use of this website or its content is without permission and a copyright violation. California residents and residents of any other jurisdiction that permits you to restrict or opt out of use of personally identifiable information, agree that you shall not provide us with any such personally identifiable information, and you additionally agree to pay us liquidated damages of $3,000 plus attorney's fees for each instance in violation of this prohibition, and such prohibited access to or use of this website or its content, or our e-mail or the like, is without permission and a copyright violation.

BY CLICKING ON ANY IMAGE OR LINK TO INDICATE "I ACCEPT," BY ACCESSING AND BROWSING THIS WEBSITE, OR BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL OR OTHER COMMUNICATION, WHETHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FAQ YOU ARE ASSERTING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THIS USER AGREEMENT,  WITHOUT LIMITATION, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS USER AGREEMENT, AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO ASSENT TO BE BOUND TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS PRESENTED IN THIS USER AGREEMENT.  CONTINUED ACCEPTANCE OF ALL THESE TERMS IS A CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND IS REQUIRED FOR YOUR ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE.  AS A RESULT, BROWSING THIS WEBSITE WITHOUT HAVING ACCEPTED THIS USER AGREEMENT WOULD BE A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION.


CPRR Discussion Group comments should be germane to this website and need to state not just a conclusion, but the facts and arguments that would lead to such a conclusion (preferably citing the sources relied upon), so that interested readers can fact check and have sufficient information to allow them to independently judge accuracy and validity. Spamming, as well as repetitive, harassing, threatening, intrusive, vulgar, profane, abusive, impolite, untruthful, disparaging, and/or off-topic messages or other communications to us or concerning this website are all prohibited. You may not post on this CPRR Museum website or the CPRR Discusson Group or send us unsolicited advertisements, nor advertising links, nor links to off topic websites, via e-mail, text message, fax, or other method of electronic communication, nor call us by telephone, nor send e-mail to our address or domain(s) that does not contain our valid address in the "To:" and/or "cc:" header, nor which has a missing, uninformative, or misleading "Subject:" header, and/or return address, nor without permission from a mailing list, nor containing an html message body, nor having attachments other than donated images and/or other donated content relating to the subject matter of this website, nor containing a computer virus, worm, or other corrupted or malicious code, nor containing proprietary content that you do not own and/or control, nor may you copy or place our e-mail address, nor any e-mail address in our domains or owned by us, nor any e-mail address found on this website or obtained from us in any database or on any mailing list.  You agree to pay us three thousand dollars per unsolicited e-mail sent, or prohibited comment posted to the CPRR Discussion Group, or telephone call and fifteen thousand dollars per e-mail address added to your commercial mailing list in violation of the foregoing, plus damages. The CPRR Museum participates in Project Honey Pot which allows us to track and help catch spammers who harvest e-mail addresses from our web pages. We reserve the right to remove, or decline to remove any posted comment or question, or portion thereof, at any time for any reason or for no reason. FAQ

No stereographs were harmed in the making of this website. FAQ
Historical characters described on this website aren't fictional and any similarities with any individual, previously living or dead, are completely consequential; nor have their names been changed to protect the innocent. FAQ

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The "Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum" is the title of this publication only.
The author of this publication is CPRR.org, a pseudonym.  The author, an individual scholar who is not a Counselor at Law, asserts moral rights. ;-)
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