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an advertisement for the great pleasure route to the pacific coast, from 1876 poster by american school

Southern Pacific Railroad advertisement from 1885. The company was founded in 1865 as a land holding company and became a railroad when it acquired the Central Pacific in 1885. The Central Pacific had employed as many as 12,000 emigrant Chinese laborers to build the railroad line from California to Utah where the "golden spike" was laid in 1869 to form the first transcontinental railroad. Utah was the connecting place with the Union Pacific railroad which had been built west from Council…

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an old advertisement for the central pacific railroad company in san francisco, califi

Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://californiarevealed.org/node/319956.

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an old black and white photo of a train going down the tracks near a mountain

The Lawrence & Houseworth albums contain photographic prints published in the 1860s that document the many aspects of gold, silver (Comstock Lode), and quicksilver mining; the building of the Sutro Tunnel; the growth of northern California industries; mining towns including Columbia, Volcano, Brown's Flat, French Corral, and Birchville; cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Stockton, and Sacramento; churches and schools; the development of transportation including…

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black and white photograph of cave with cats in the caves, cauvers around

It is incredibly difficult to summarise your favourite illustrator in a mere 200 words or so – how do you possibly convey the raw, bizarre drawings of Kyle Pellet concisely when you are overflowing with things to say? Kyle's got a new website displaying his multi-faceted talents, so to mark the occasion–- and in the hope of trying to see a little further into his incredible mind – we asked him a few questions about his life and work. h3. When did you first begin to draw?

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