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Watkins #1120 - Summit Station with West End of Tunnel, Central Pacifc Railroad, Placer County
Image courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   (Accession Number 94.XM.109.4)
Photographers number:1120
Title:Summit Station with West End of Tunnel, Central Pacifc Railroad, Placer County
Inscription:Recto mount on pasted paper label, centered below image: Summit Station with West End of Tunnel./ C.P.R.R./ Watkins New Series/ 427 Montgomery St., S.F.__No. 1120
Date Photographed: circa 1880
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 953
Notes:CMP notes: Note CEW wagon near building at center, left edge of image. Note people posed on porches of 2 white bldgs, left. Can make out 5 figures on left structure & approx. 11 on right (includes some children)

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Albumen
Image Size:15 7⁄16  x  21 5⁄16  in.  (39.2 x 54.1 cm)  —  Horizontal, Rectangle
Mount Size:22  x  28   in.  (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Provenance to 1900:Weston Naef (Gift in memory of Kathleen W. Naef)  (source: 1994/JPGM notes)

View this image in gallery:Railroads
Link to image source:http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/101159/carleton-watkins-summit-station-with-west-end-of-tunnel-cprr-american-negative-about-1880-print-about-1880/
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