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Lake County : the sanitarium of California, the Switzerland of America

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Description: A broadside promoting Lake County resorts and the Geysers in Somona County. Provides ticket rates for single and round trips via Calistoga from San Francisco and from Sacramento. The "Map of Lake County Showing Location of its Various Resorts and Railway Lines of the Southern Pacific Co. from San Francisco to Calistoga" shows Lake County roads as well as the SP's terminus at Calistoga. The Southern Pacific Company also published a 12-panel brochure promoting the region in 1898.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1898?]
Call number: 642321
Creator: Southern Pacific Company(Opens in new tab)
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Map of California 1907 Illustrating its climatology, comparative area, rail lines, topography, etc. compiled from official and authentic sources

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At head of title: "National Educational Association Edition." Alt title from verso. Verso includes brief description of various aspects of the state. Two submaps; one showing average temperatures across the state, the other showing comparative areas of other states with California. Very fragile, handle with care. Submaps: Average Temperature; Area comparison. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: shaded. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Published by the Passenger Department Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal. Includes seal of Southern Pacific Sunset Ogden & Shasta Routes.

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Photographs of Lake Vineyard, Shorb and Wilson families, adobe of Santa Clara County, California, and others

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Copy photographs: B.D. Wilson and family at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel Valley; Kinneloa, the Abbott Kinney bee farm in Sierra Madre; Shorb Post Office, San Gabriel. Copies were made from the Arthur E. Ellis Collection (photCL 188). Original photographs in this folder: oldest adobe building in Santa Clara County, California; photographs of the volunteer firemen with hand pump engine, San Francisco; Cliff House at Seal Rock, San Francisco; five images of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906.

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Albion River, Albion, Mendocino County, California

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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).

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Scenery on the Redwood branch of the S.F. & N.P.R.R. Sonoma Co. California

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Image of a series of views of Northern California as related to the Korbel brothers' business ventures and the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, including images of Korbel's saw mill, hotel, logging operations, and picnic grounds, as well as Cape Horn, the Russian River and its railroad bridge, and the railroad terminus; large sequoia trees surround the picnic grounds at center.

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Big Creek: Florence Lake and Dam

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Florence Lake dam: maintenance, including miscellaneous paint samples on arches, test slabs, backcountry Powerhouses, spill of water through Ward Tunnel from Florence Lake, flume collapsed from Ward Tunnel spill, Spillway at Florence Lake Dam cresting with logs and debris caught on drum gates, mountains above Florence Lake, and shots of different stages of construction of Florence Lake Dam. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #1

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Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #1 - Bird's eye view southeasterly of Seaside & Long Beach from the raised Salt Lake Railroad Bridge looking east over Cerritos Channel, showing the old Pacific Electric Terminus at Seaside.

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