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  • The octopus speaks : the Colton letters / edited, with notes and introduction by Salvador A. Ramirez.

    • Text
    • Carlsbad, Calif. : Tentacled Press, 1992, c1982.
    • 1992-1982
    • 1 Item
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  • Stereoscopic Views of Sacramento, California [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1860?-1900?
    • 1860-1900
    • 1 Resource

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  • Stereoscopic Views of Amador, Nevada, Tuolumne and Yuba Counties, California. [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1865?-1876?
    • 1865-1876
    • 1 Resource

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  • Stereoscopic views of Sierra Nevada Mountain locales [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1864?-1905?
    • 1864-1905
    • 1 Resource

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  • Views in Chicago & vicinity before and after the fire [graphic] / by P.B. Greene.

    • Still image
    • Chicago, Ill. ; P.B. Greene, 1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Resource

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  • Stereoscopic views of Nevada [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1867?-1920?
    • 1867-1920
    • 1 Resource

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  • Central Pacific Railroad [graphic] / Alfred A. Hart.

    • Still image
    • Sacramento, Cal. : Alfred A. Hart, 1864?-1869?
    • 1864-1869
    • 1 Resource

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  • Central Pacific Railroad [graphic] / Thomas Houseworth & Co.

    • Still image
    • San Francisco : Thomas Houseworth & Co., 1868?-1875?
    • 1868-1875
    • 1 Resource

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  • Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad [graphic] / W. H. Jackson.

    • Still image
    • Omaha, Neb. : W. H. Jackson, 1869?-1872?
    • 1868-1872
    • 1 Resource

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  • Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad [graphic] / Edw. J. Muybridge.

    • Still image
    • San Francisco : Bradley & Rulofson, 1868?-1875?
    • 1868-1875
    • 1 Resource

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  • Watkin's Pacific Railroad [graphic] / by C. E. Watkins.

    • Still image
    • San Francisco : C. E. Watkins, 1866?-1872?
    • 1866-1872
    • 1 Resource

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  • Palisades, C.P.R.R. [graphic] / [C. R. Savage]

    • Still image
    • 1884?
    • 1884

  • The great iron trail; the story of the first transcontinental railroad.

    • Text
    • New York, Putnam 1962
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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  • Rails across the continent; the story of the first transcontinental railroad.

    • Text
    • New York, J. Messner [1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-16 1929Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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  • High road to Promontory; building the Central Pacific (now the Southern Pacific) across the High Sierra.

    • Text
    • Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E-13 8498Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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  • The Central Pacific & the Southern Pacific Railroads. With 121 photos. by Richard Steinheimer.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F-10 8411Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... / by Henry T. Williams, editor ; with special contributions by F.V. Hayden ... [et al.] ; illustrations by Thomas Moran ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • New York : H.T. Williams, 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text KNE (Williams, H. T. Pacific tourist. 1879)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • Iron horses to Promontory [by] Gerald M. Best.

    • Text
    • [San Marino, Calif.] Golden West Books [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F-11 5906Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • Snowplow: clearing mountain rails, by Gerald M. Best.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North Books, 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F-11 2867Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • [Circular] to the bondholders, Jan., 1873. Fisk and Hatch.

    • Text
    • New York [1873]
    • 1873
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Central Pacific Railroad Company. [Circular] to the bondholders) 1873Offsite

  • In the Senate of the United States, May 1, 1896 : ordered to be printed / Mr. Gear, from the Committee on Pacific Railroads, submitted the following report [to accompany S.2894.]

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.], 1896.
    • 1896
    • 1 Item

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPR (United States. Pacific Railroads, Committee on. Views of the minority)Offsite

  • The grants, rights and privileges of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. of California, under national, state & local legislation; the articles of association & by-laws thereof, and the mortgages executed by the company to secure their first mortgage bonds. <Carefully comp. from authenticated copies,> New York, 1868.

    • Text
    • New York, Holt Brothers [1868]
    • 1868
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Central Pacific Railroad Company. Grants, rights and privileges) 1868Offsite

  • The Central Pacific railroad co. Its relations to the government. It has performed every obligation. Oral argument of Creed Haymond, its general solicitor, made before the Select committee of the U.S. Senate ... March 17th and 26th and April 7th, 1888 ... Reported by James L. Andem.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco. Press of H. S. Crocker & co., 1888?]
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Central) (Haymond, C. Central Pacific Railroad Co. ) 1888Offsite

  • Pacific railroads. Argument of Creed Haymond before Senate Committee, March 17th-[April 7] 1888. The Central Pacific railroad company has performed every obligation.

    • Text
    • [Washington? 1888]
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Central) (Haymond, C. Pacific railroads)Offsite

  • Building the Pacific railway; the construction-story of America's first iron thoroughfare between the Missouri river and California, from the inception of the great idea to the day, May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific joined tracks at Promotory point, Utah, to form the nation's transcontinental, by Edwin L. Sabin; with 22 illustrations and a map ...

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Union Pacific railway) (Sabin, E. L. Building the Pacific Railway)Offsite

  • Report of the commission and of the minority commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission : appointed ... March 3, 1887 ... / reported by Charles P. Young.

    • Text
    • Washington : G.P.O., 1887.
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TPS (Union Pacific Railway) (United States. Pacific Railway Commission. Report of the commission and of the minority commissioner)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Central Pacific R.R. of California. Character of the work, its progress, resources, earnings, and future prospects ...

    • Text
    • New York, G. Brown, printer, 1866.
    • 1866
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text (Parsons) VDCP (Central Pacific Railroad Company. Central Pacific R.R. of California)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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  • Railroad across the continent : with an account of the Central Pacific Railroad of California : a description of the route, the progress and character of the work, the organization, resources, and prospects of the company, with the foundation and advantages of the first mortgage bonds.

    • Text
    • New York : Brown & Hewitt, printers, 1868.
    • 1868
    • 1 Item
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    Text (Parsons) VDCP (Central Pacific Railroad Company. Railroad communication across the continent)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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  • Pickett's pamphlet, on the railway, Chinese, and presidential questions.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, Cal., 1876.
    • 1876
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ID p.v. 10 no. 1-14, 16-29Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • As to refunding the Central Pacific debt.

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    • [n.p., n.d.]
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  • Relations between the Central Pacific railroad company and the United States government. Summary of facts. 1889.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, H. S. Crocker & co., 1889.
    • 1889

  • Has the Legislature the constitutional power to alter or repeal the franchise owned by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, by which the state authorized it to collect tolls within certain limits? Opinion...

    • Text
    • San Francisco, H. S. Crocker & Co., printers and stationers, 1875.
    • 1875

  • A memorial against refunding the claim of the United States upon the Central Pacific Railroad Company for $77,000,000.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco? 1894?]
    • 1894

  • Report of the chief engineer upon recent surveys, progress of construction, and an approximate estimate of cost of first division of fifty miles of the Central Pacific railroad of Cal., July 1st, 1863.

    • Text
    • Sacramento, J. Anthony & co., printers, 1863.
    • 1863

  • Statement made to the President of the United States, and Secretary of the Interior, of the progress of the work, October 10th, 1865.

    • Text
    • Sacramento, Calif. : Central Pacific Railroad, 1865.
    • 1865

  • The Colton letters; the inside history of an infamous procedure...

    • Text
    • [n.p., 188-?]
    • 1880

  • Extracts from the report of the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission / by Robt. E. Pattison.

    • Text
    • Washington : U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1888.
    • 1888

  • Central Pacific Railroad Company; preamble and resolution. January 12, 1874.

    • Text
    • [Washington, 1874]
    • 1874

  • In brief. Holding down to the main question.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco, 1878]
    • 1878

  • Samuel Brannan and R.O. Ives, plaintiffs, vs. Central Pacific Railroad Co., of California, and others, defendants [microform]

    • Text
    • [San Francisco? 1870?]
    • 1870
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZV TPG p.v. 173-176 r. 58Offsite

  • Pacific railroads [microform]. Statement of Leland Standford, made before the Senate Select Committee on Pacific Railroads, March 17th, 1888.

    • Text
    • [Washington, 1888]
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZV TPR p.v. 23-26 r.8Offsite

  • Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 / Stephen E. Ambrose.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text IW 00-12129Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121
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  • Report ... of the United States Pacific Railway Commission [and testimony taken by the Commission]

    • Text
    • Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1887-88.
    • 1887-1888
    • 1 Item

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    Text TPS (Union Pacific) (United States. Pacific Railway Commission. Report of the commission and of the minority commissioner. [Sen. exec. doc. 51]) 1887Offsite

  • Map exhibiting the several Pacific railroads / prepared for the report on the internal commerce of the United States by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics.

    • Cartographic
    • [Chicago] : Rand, McNally & Co., 1883.
    • 1883
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 01-11518Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117
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  • The associates : four capitalists who created California / Richard Rayner.

    • Text
    • New York : W. W. Norton, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBD 08-256Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • Over the range : a history of the Promontory Summit route of the Pacific railroad / Richard V. Francaviglia.

    • Text
    • Logan : Utah State University Press, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IW 09-29Offsite

  • Chinese railroad workers / Susan Sinnott.

    • Text
    • New York : F. Watts, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 331.61 SOffsite

  • Ten Mile Day and the building of the transcontinental railroad / written and illustrated by Mary Ann Fraser.

    • Text
    • New York : H. Holt, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 385.09 FOffsite

  • Full steam ahead : the race to build a transcontinental railroad / by Rhoda Blumberg.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 385.09 BOffsite

  • The silent spikes : Chinese laborers and the construction of North American railroads / compiled and edited by Huang Annian, translated by Zhang Juguo.

    • Text
    • [Beijing] : China Intercontinental Press, [2006]
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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