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Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This letter home, written from Donner Lake in Placer County, California, contains an account of the progress on construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. He states that they are now "100 miles from Sacramento and two miles from the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains...there is about five or six thousand Chinemen [sic] at work here at the present time."
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