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The road of a thousand wonders : the coast line-Shasta route of the Southern Pacific Company from Los Angeles through San Francisco to Portland, a journey of over one thousand three hundred miles
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The Road of a Thousand Wonders: The Coast Line-Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific Company from Los Angeles Through San Francisco to Portland, a Journey of Over One Thousand Three Hundred Miles. San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co, 1907
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A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).
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Picturesque Shasta Springs on the Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific Co. between San Francisco and Portland
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The overland route to the road of a thousand wonders ; the route of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific from Omaha to San Francisco; a journey of eighteen hundred miles where once the bison and the Indian reigned. Over the wagon trail of the hardy pioneers runs the overland route as pictured in these pages
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