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Map of plotting California Eastern Extension Railroad, near Auburn, California, by Theodore D. Judah

Description: With pencil notes on verso.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1860
Call number: mssHM 55655
Creator: Judah, Theodore D (1826-1863)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Benjamin Tighe, January 1971.
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Theodore D. Judah papers

Manuscripts

Documents, from 1859 to 1877, and notebook, from 1854 and 1862, belonging to Theodore D. Judah, concerning the financing and construction of the California Eastern Extension Railroad. Also included is a pencil map by Judah plotting the route of the railroad, and a printed volume of First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California, 1877, with clippings and calling cards pasted inside. The notebook contains costs of iron and locomotives, an expense account, sketch maps and elevations, notes and observations on trips across the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1862. It also includes distances, elevations, and temperatures measured on an 1854 trip across the Sierras taken with Collis P. Huntington and others.

mssHM 55637-55655

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Theodore D. Judah papers

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mssHM 55637-55655

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California Eastern Extension Railroad Company stock certificates

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With attached coupons. Signed by Edward McLean, President, and J.L. Trask, Secretary.

mssHM 55654

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Pacific railroad. : Report of Theodore D. Judah, accredited agent Pacific Railroad Convention, upon his operations in the Atlantic states

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336464

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Map Showing the location of Sacramento Valley Railroad. Cal

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Showing a proposed extension to San Francisco and another extension north to Tehama. Excerpted from copy of Sacramento Valley Railroad Co. Report... San Francisco, 1855. "Sacramento, Sept. 7 1854. T. D. Judah, Chief Engineer." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 152921.

152921

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Map of the Sacramento Valley Railroad from the City of Sacramento To the crossing of the American River at Negro Bar, Sac. Co

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Negro Bar is now Folsom. "Sept 16th, 1854." "T. D. Judah, Chief Engineer." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 152922.

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Map of plotting California Eastern Extension Railroad, near Auburn, California, by Theodore D. Judah

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