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Sacramento City. Waterfront with contemplated improvements

Description: Image of an eye-level view of Sacramento, California; busy waterfront on Sacramento River with wagons, oxen, carriages, horses, railroad train, and pedestrians; three paddle wheel steamships, "Young America," "Queen City," and "New World," near dock; shops along the street in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1852
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_004424
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Pan-Handle route : Union Passenger Station, Chicago, Ill

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the brick Union Passenger Station building in Chicago, Illinois, with a busy street scene in the foreground containing pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, two men riding high-wheel bicycles, and people on horseback; a locomotive and train car are visible to the left and ship masts are visible behind the buildings; two lower corner vignettes depict an empty waiting room and porch.

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Proposed Arcade Railway. : Under Broadway, view near Wall Street

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of Broadway near Wall Street in New York City, lined with commercial buildings, showing a busy street scene with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages, elevated above a section of an underground railway with train cars and waiting passengers.

priJLC_TRAN_000642

Broadway New York. : South from the park

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Image of an eye-level street view of Broadway road in New York City showing the American Museum on the right and mid-rise buildings, with some storefront signage, lining the street into the distance, and a busy street scene with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.

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Maiden Lane, New York

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the busy intersection at Maiden Lane and Broadway in New York City, with utility poles and shop signs covering the mid-rise buildings, and the streets filled pedestrians, horse-drawn trolleys, carts with goods including a fruit cart, wagons, and a United States mail wagon.

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New terminal depot at Philadelphia Reading Railroad System. : R.J. Allen, Son & Company

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the eight-story Reading Terminal station of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and adjacent buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a busy street scene in the foreground with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, and street cars including one labeled "Philadelphia Traction Co"; flag on roof of building reads "Philadelphia and Reading R.R." in reverse; the next door building is labeled "1888."

priJLC_TRAN_001054

First Congregational Church : Post & Mason Streets San Francisco

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the First Congregational Church in San Francisco, California, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages; ornate border around the view with angels and cherubs.

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Sacramento City. Waterfront with contemplated improvements

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