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Half-stereograph prints show sites in Northern California with emphasis on San Francisco and areas of the Sierra Nevada. Also views of Carson City and Virginia City in Western Nevada. Subjects include placer and hydraulic mining operations and settlements; commercial buildings; the Central Pacific Railroad; churches; dwellings; mills; missions; harbors and wharfs; schools; some ships. Also cityscapes and street scenes; views of Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Calif., and the redwoods of Calaveras County, Calif. The collection includes an extensive pictorial survey of mid-nineteenth-century San Francisco.
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