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"A Snow Drift on the Pacific Railroad"
Hand colored wood block engraving from Harper's Weekly, March 19, 1870 |
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"All aboard for Virginia City"
(Stagecoaches at Cisco)
German wood engraving c. 1873, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", from the original
painting by L. J. Bonnat. After Hart stereoview #217. |
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"Completion of the Pacific
Railroad, May 10, 1869—
The Great Link Connecting
Europe with Asia Across the American Continent."
Harper's Weekly Newspaper, May 29, 1869. |
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The following four pages are taken from the spectacular
12 volume (13 book)
Pacific
Railroad Surveys reporting the work of the Army Topographical Engineers
in the mid-1850's. Illustration
Courtesy Normand
Pichette, Vortex Books. |
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Pacific Railroad Surveys, c.
1855
John Mix Stanley — Engravings
of Birds
The Pacific Railroad Surveys included extensive investigation of wildlife
along the routes studied. Color Lithographs by John Mix Stanley 1814-1872
from the 12 volume survey report of proposed routes for the Pacific Railroad
have incredible detail and beauty. |
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Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1855
John Mix Stanley — Engravings
of Scenery |
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Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1855
John Mix Stanley — Additional
Engravings of Scenery |
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Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1861
Additional Wood and Steel Engravings, Panoramas, & Maps, including Utah, Nevada, & California
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Currier & Ives Railroad
Lithographs:
"Westward the Empire, 1870-1871"
Currier & Ives was a lithographic firm in New York City from 1835
to 1907. Self-described as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures,"
but better described by collectors and admirers as "The Printmakers to
the American People," their works captured the pulse of 19th century American
life and remain among the most collectible pieces of Americana. |
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"The Last Spike" by
Thomas Hill
from Johnstone, E. McD. Pacific
Coast Souvenir. Oakland,
California,
E.S. Denison, 1888 |
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"Completion of the Pacific
Railroad—
Meeting of Locomotives of
the Union and Central Pacific Lines:
The Engineers Shake Hands"
Harper's Weekly Newspaper, June 5, 1869. |
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"Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books: Central
Pacific Railroad." 1871. |
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"Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books: Scenery of California
The Yosemite Valley, and The Mammoth Trees and Geysers of California" c.
1871. |
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Nob
Hill Mansions, San Francisco
from "Historical
Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal." View Book by C. P. Heininger, San
Francisco, Cal., c. 1887. |
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Locomotive at Cape Horn "View
on American River"
Harper's Weekly Newspaper, December 7, 1867. |
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West Portal, Tunnel No. I, C. P. R. R.
and other Engravings from the
"Specimen Book of Electrotypes" Engraved Illustrations of Pacific Coast
Scenery, etc., for use by Publishers and Printers, 1885. |
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"Across The Continent.
— The Frank Leslie Excursion To The Pacific. —
Side-Scenes On The Central
Pacific Railroad."
Night Train
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 9, 1878. |
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"Railroad Story Book: A Thousand Miles by Rail." McLoughlin Bros, New
York, 1907. |
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"Across The Continent. — The
Frank Leslie Transcontinental Excursion. —
The Excursion Train Rounding
Cape Horn at the Head of the Great American Canon, with a View of the South
Fork of the American River, where Gold Was First Discovered in 1848."
Frank Leslie Transcontinental Excursion Train, hand-colored engraving,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 27, 1878. |
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Long Ravine Bridge and Donner Lake
Illustrated London News, 1868. |
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Scovill Stereoscopic
Camera |
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"Donner Lake, from the Snow-Sheds"
from Appleton's "Our Native Land," 1886. |
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"Central Pacific Warf - San Francisco"
"Cape Horn" and
"Snowsheds on Donner Peak"
from "Our Native Land" D. Appleton
& Co., New York, 1886 |
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"Beyond
the Mississippi" by Albert D. Richardson, 1869
Building
the Pacific Railroad |
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"A Souvenir of the Transcontinental
Excursion of Railroad Agents, 1870."
Excursion Ticket |
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Constructing Snow Sheds, Sierra Nevada Mountains, C. P. R. R.
From a series of engravings in "Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist's
Guide" |
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"California" By Charles Nordhoff.
"I.-How to Go There, and What to
See by the Way."
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, May, 1872. |
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"Between The Gates"
One Man's Colorful First Person Account of 1870’s Travel on the
Pacific Railroad
Summit Tunnel |
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"Lightning on the Prairies"
The Pacific Tourist, 1882. |
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"Overland
Route" 1881 Timetable with UPRR Engravings (First Panel)
... (Second
Panel)
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Woodcut Stereoviews of the Central Pacific Railroad
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Selected
Engravings from
the Illustrated
history of the Panama Railroad. by Fessenden Nott Otis, Harper & Brothers,
New York, 1861
(Supplies for building the Central Pacific RR had to go via
the Panama RR or entirely by ship
around Cape Horn.) |
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Advertisements from Railway Review, 1882 |
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Portfolio of American Locomotives, c. 1870-1880 |
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The Tiger, M.W. Baldwin & Co. Locomotive Builders, Philadelphia. |
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Cabin of Central Pacific Railroad Ferry Piedmont, 1884 |
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New Map of the
Union Pacific Railway, the Short, Quick and Safe Line to All Points West,
Rand McNally and Company, 1883. Courtesy Library
of Congress. |
