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Album of Western locomotives
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A collection of 45 photographs depicting the Western United States compiled by Samuel S. Durfee, showing both natural and man-made attractions in California, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. Photographs include Mt. Shasta in California, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and Pike's Peak and Garden of the Gods in Colorado. City scenes include Chinatown and other areas in San Francisco and the interior of the Tabernacle and Joseph Smith's grave in Salt Lake City. Some of the photographers are identified, including I.W. Taber, C.R. Savage, and William Henry Jackson (W.H. Jackson & Co.).
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The name Southern Pacific in the United States and throughout the world became synonymous with steam locomotives. In this pictorial anthology of Western Railroading in the grand manner, more than 115 choice illustrations trace the history of motive power from the early woodburner to the striking "Daylight" with its red and orange livery--Adapted from jacket.
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An album with 99 snapshots consisting mainly of views of the desert mining town of Nippeno (now known as Nipton), California, and the Nippeno Mine in Lincoln County, Nevada (now in Clark County), as well as views of Crescent, Nevada; Manvel (?), California; and Vanderbilt, California. Views of Nippeno include workers and informal camp life scenes, various mine camp buildings including a cabin identified as the first building on the site and as having been erected by G. D. Halfpenny of the Nippeno Mining Company, water tunnels, mine shafts, freight train arrivals, horses, mules, and a baby mule. There are several photographs of "Expert Hunter" inspecting shafts and tunnels at the Nippeno Mine. Views of Vanderbilt include a photograph of William A. McFarlane and of his general store and restaurant. Views of Crescent include a photograph labeled "Win Sherman - "By Gad" - one of the pioneers" (likely of Winslow Sherman, an early settler and miner). There is one image of an automobile.
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A volume of photographs accompanied by a typescript travel narrative by Thomas Recknagel, a Cornell University undergraduate, documenting his travels by automobile and railroad in the summer of 1938. The bound volume is titled "Western Journey" and begins with snapshots taken during a train trip from Ithaca, New York, through Chicago, to San Francisco, where Recknagel met his parents and family friends to travel by car. They headed north through Oregon to British Columbia, where their trip included a cricket match in Vancouver; Victoria; a boat trip around the Gulf Islands; and a visit to the University of British Columbia, where Arthur Recknagel had taken a visiting lecturer position. The group took a return train trip through the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, and across Canada to Port McNicoll, Ontario. There are two appendices of photographs from Recknagel's parents' trip in the beginning of the year, with several snapshots of Yosemite. The back of the volume also has 20 commercial photographs (3.5 x 5-inches) of Vancouver and the Fraser River area in British Columbia. Notable in the album are a series of photographs and narrative of the rescue of a man who had attempted suicide by jumping into the sea in San Francisco.
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