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Utley, The New York Times Review of Books, December 12, 1999.</a></i></font></center>�</blockquote>��<table WIDTH="100%" >�<tr>�<td>�<center><table CELLSPACING=5 WIDTH="100%" >�<tr>�<td>�<center><a href="Museum/Bonnie_Williams/index.html#Hart 355"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/_Hart_355.FixingTelegraphBW.jpg" ALT="Hart 355" title=""The Last Rail - The Invocation. Fixing the Wire, May 10, 1869." Hart Stereoview #355. [Click to Enlarge]" BORDER=1 height=107 width=157></font></a>�<p><a href="Museum/Done!.html#Laying%20of%20Last%20Rail"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/_Russell.Last_Rail_NARA.jpg" ALT="AJR Last Rail" title="Andrew J. Russell, Imperial View, "Laying of Last Rail." [Click to Enlarge]" HSPACE=10 BORDER=1 height=120 width=157 align=TEXTTOP></font></a>�<p><a href="Museum/Ephemera/Pacific_RR_Bond_SF.html"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/ephemera/_Pacific_RR_Bond_SF1865BCC.jpeg" ALT="SF RR Bond" title="Pacific Rail Road Bond, $1000, City & County of San Francisco, May 1, 1865. [Click to Enlarge]" HSPACE=2 VSPACE=2 BORDER=1 height=106 width=157></font></a>�<p><a href="Museum/Ephemera/First_Train_Blotter.html"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/paintings/_First_Train_Blotter.jpg" ALT="First Train" title=""First Train on the Central Pacific Railroad." Painting by Joseph Hubert Becker. [Click to Enlarge]" BORDER=1 height=114 width=157></font></a></center>�</td>��<td><!-- vvvvv ALL COPYING IS PROHIBITED vvvvv -->� <div align="center">� <table CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BACKGROUND="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/engravings/Harper%27s_Promontory.jpg" >� <tr>� <td><a href="#Cape Horn"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/See_PERMISSIONS.gif" ALT="Completion of the Pacific Railroad" title=""Completion of the Pacific Railroad." Engraving from Harper's Weekly Newspaper, June 5, 1869, hand colored." BORDER=1 height=526 width=684></font></a></td>� </tr>� </table>� <font size="-1"><strong>Overcoming <a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Obstacles">incredible� obstacles</a>, transcontinental railroad <a href="Museum/index.html#Construction">construction</a> finished <a href="Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html#1862-17">7� years ahead of schedule</a>!� </strong></font><br>� <!-- ^^^^^ ALL COPYING IS PROHIBITED ^^^^^ -->� <img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/See_PERMISSIONS.gif" ALT="[PICTURE MISSING? — Click "FASTER" button above!]" BORDER=0 height=30 width=500 align=CENTER></div></td>�</tr>�</table></center>�</td>�</tr>�</table>�<hr>�<center><table CELLPADDING=10 WIDTH="100%" >�<tr>� <td><table border="0">� <tr>� <td> </td>� <td><b><font size=-2><a href="Museum/Exhibits.html"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/newspaper_cuts/exhibition.jpg" width="94" height="25" title="Visit the Exhibits!" alt="Exhibition - Newspaper Cut"></a></font></b></td>� </tr>� <tr>� <td align="right" valign="top"><b><font size=-2><a href="Museum/Exhibits.html"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/logos/red_check.gif" title="Visit the Exhibits!" alt="check" width="19" height="18" hspace="0" vspace="2" border="0" align="top"></a></font></b></td>� <td><b><font size=-2><a href="Museum/Exhibits.html" title="Visit the Exhibits! [CLICK]">Don't miss the� thousands of<br>�transcontinental railroad<br>�pictures in the Exhibits!</a></font></b></td>� </tr>� </table> <p><b><font size=-2><a href="Museum/Exhibits.html"><br>� </a></font></b></p>� </td>� <td><div align="center"> <font size="-1"><a href="Museum/Steve_Heselton/_hazeltine_sacramento_d_sh.htm"><strong><em>Sacramento, � Cal. waterfront</em></strong></a><em><strong>—<a href="http://www.californiastaterailroadmuseum.org/doc.asp?id=145" target="_blank">Pacific� Railroad western terminus</a>—<a href="Museum/First_Rail_Laid_1863.html">the � first spike</a>:</strong></em></font><br>� <a href="http://dlp.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mkhtml.cgi?7822312331540034&3&2484&1504&0&0&0&0" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/paintings/_Sacramento_Hahn_UCB-DLP.jpg" alt=""Sacramento Railroad Station" 1874 painting by William Hahn. Courtesy UC Berkeley, Digital Library Project." name="" width="400" height="217" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="1" title=""Sacramento Railroad Station" 1874 painting by William Hahn. Courtesy UC Berkeley, Digital Library Project. [Click to Enlarge]"></font></a><br>� <font size="-1">"<a href="http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-22.html" target="_blank">Sacramento � Railroad Station</a>" 1874 painting by <a href="http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Record?133144&=list&=1&=william&=And&=1&=0&=keywords&=Yes&=hahn%20&=&=&=Yes&=&=f" target="_blank">William � Hahn</a>.</font><br>� <font size="-2"><em>Courtesy <a href="http://dlp.cs.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">UC � Berkeley, Digital Library Project</a>.</em></font></div></td>�<td><div align=right>� <p><a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Homework"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/logos/kids_DOI.jpg" alt="Kids & Teachers. Image courtesy U.S. Dept. of the Interior." name="" width="173" height="33" border="0"></a><br>� <b><font size=-2><a href="Museum/legal.html#permissions" title="CLICK FOR HOMEWORK PICTURES!">HOMEWORK� PICTURES</a></font><br>� <font size=-1>Teachers see:</font><font size=-2><br>� <a href="Game"> Great Railroad Race<br>� Game for School Kids</a>� <br>� & � <a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Teachers">Lesson Plans</a></font></b></p>� <p><b><a href="http://books.google.com/books?as_q=central%2Bpacific%2Brailroad&num=100&btnG=Google%2BSearch&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=1&as_vt=&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=1800&as_maxy=1922&as_isbn=" title="Google's Library Project gives you free instant online access to hundreds of 19th and early 20th century books about the Central Pacific Railroad. [CLICK]" target="_blank"><font size="-2">RR BOOKS ONLINE</font></a><font size=-2><br>� </font></b></p>�</div>�</td>�</tr>�</table></center>��<hr>�<center><table BORDER WIDTH="75%" BGCOLOR="#FF9D00" >�<tr>� <td><a name="interesting"></a><a href="/Museum/Sierra_Grade_8-2003/index.html"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/_tnl6wpt2.jpg" title="Western Portal of the Summit Tunnel (No. 6). August 5, 2003. Composite photograph by Bruce C. Cooper of a daylight image, a flash image of the tunnel interior, and missing track added from Tunnel No. 39, with grafitti removed. [CLICK FOR SIERRA VIEWS.]" alt="Summit Tunnel Composite Image by Bruce Cooper." name="" width="200" height="267" hspace="10" vspace="5" border="1" align="left"></font></a><a href="Museum/Lewis_Metzler_Clement.html">Lewis Clement</a> had achieved � a triumph of the first magnitude in engineering. The <a href="Museum/Summit_Tunnel_1999/index.html">Summit � Tunnel</a> was 7,042 feet above the sea. <a href="http://www.rarenewspapers.com" target="_blank"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/newspapers/Lancaster_Intelligencer_TH.jpg" alt=""COMPLETION OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD — Some twenty years ago it was proposed to build a railroad to the Pacific coast. The idea at that time was looked upon by most men as visionary in the extreme, and by some pronounced impossible, yet this so-called visionary project has been accomplished and the iron horse will now speed its way over three thousand miles of continuous rail, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean."" name="" width="275" height="135" hspace="10" vspace="5" border="0" align="right" title="Lancaster Intelligencer, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1869. Courtesy Timothy Hughes, Rare & Early Newspapers."></a>This � was the highest point reached by the CP. The facings were off by � only <a href="Museum/Farrar/pictures/2005-03-11-01-02.html">two inches</a>, a feat that could hardly be equaled in the twenty-first � century. Clement had done it with black powder, nitroglycerin, and � muscle power. He had not used electric or steam-driven drills, steam � engines to power scoop shovels, or any gas or electric-powered carts or � cars to haul out the broken granite. There were no robots, no mechanical � devices. Well over 95 percent of the work was done by the Chinese � men. They and their foremen and the bosses, Clement and Crocker � and Strobridge, had <a href="Museum/Sierra_Grade_8-2003/Period_Views/index.html">created� one of the greatest moments in American history.</a> � <p><a href="Museum/Maps/index.html"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/maps/__AAR_map_03.jpg" title="Transcontinental Railroad shown in red. [Click for railroad maps.]" alt="map" name="" width="160" height="102" hspace="10" vspace="5" border="1" align="left"></font></a><a href="Museum/Ephemera/American_Progress.html"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/paintings/_American_Progress_GAC_1870.JPG" title=""American Progress" allegorical painting by John Gast, 1872. Courtesy The Globe Pequot Press. [Click to Enlarge]" alt="American Progress allegorical painting by John Gast, 1872." width="200" height="149" hspace="15" vspace="10" border="1" align="right"></font></a>More � than a dozen <a href="Museum/Tunnels.html">tunnels</a> were blasted � through the granite mountains. Most were on curves, laid out by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0743203178/ref=sib_books_ref/002-2333889-4048059?v=search-inside&keywords=lewis%20clement" target="_blank">Lewis� Clement</a>. When the faces met, they were never more than an inch off line, � showing the remarkable accuracy of his calculations and instrument work � under the most difficult of circumstances. <i>Van Nostrands Engineering � Magazine</i> said in 1870 that the undertaking was preposterous, but � Clement did it. � <p><font size="-1"> —Stephen E. Ambrose, <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203178/centralpacificra" target="_blank">Nothing � Like It in the World</a></i></b> <br>� <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203178/centralpacificra" target="_blank">The � Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863 - 1869</a></i></b></font></td>�</tr>�</table></center>��<blockquote>� <p>The <a href="Museum/Eastward.html">idea for a transcontinental railroad</a> "to shrink the continent� and change the whole world" was <a href="Museum/index.html#Plans">first� proposed</a> by <a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Location">men of imagination</a> in 1830. It wasn't until 1862 that Congress� passed a <a href="Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html" target="_blank">bill</a>� authorizing such a venture. <a href="Museum/Maps/index.html"></a>In 1869, after a long, bitter and often terrifying� <a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Obstacles">struggle</a> against Indian attacks, brutal weather, floods, labor shortages,� political chicanery, lawlessness and a war, the first transcontinental� railroad finally became a reality. Now the way
1was open for vast expansion� and social changes that would make America the industrial giant of the� world. ... One of the great engineering feats of history and ... a fascinating� chapter in the development of our country.� <br>� <font size=-2>[After <i>Rails Across the Continent: The Story of the� First Transcontinental Railroad</i> by Enid Johnson.] <i>Text Courtesy� Walt Winter.</i></font></p>� <p>An 1846 Cincinnati newspaper mocked the utopian claims that a railroad could� "create settlements, commerce and wealth"; the project's supporters,� the paper suggested, might as well be promising "to unite <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">neighboring� planets</font></a> in our solar system and make them better acquainted with each other."<br>� <font size="-2"><em>[<a href="http://web.archive.org/http://community.middlebury.edu/%7Ebain/EExpress%20/NYTfeature.html" target="_blank">"Looking� at the Transcontinental Railroad as the Internet of 1869"�by Edward Rothstein,</a></em><a href="http://web.archive.org/http://community.middlebury.edu/%7Ebain/EExpress%20/NYTfeature.html" target="_blank"> New�York Times<em>,�December 11, 1999.</em></a><em>] Text Courtesy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067080889X/centralpacificra" target="_blank">David�Bain</a>. [<a href="http://www.kued.org/productions/promontory/interviews/bain.html" target="_blank">Interview</a>]</em></font></p>� <p><a href="Museum/index.html#Photography">Photography</a> was a critical marketing� tool for <a href="Museum/FAQs.html#Cost">financing</a> with transcontinental� railroad <a href="Museum/Ephemera/Pacific_RR_Bond_SF.html">bonds</a> – both� the CPRR and UPRR hired <a href="Museum/Stereograph_Catalog.html">photographers</a> to� <a href="Museum/CPRR_Bonds_1868/index.html">document</a> the <a href="Museum/Reports/pictures/capture_00042.html">progress</a> of <a href="Museum/index.html#Construction">construction</a>,� producing the <a href="Museum/Exhibits.html">numerous� stereoviews</a> which now illustate this website. The <a href="Museum/Ephemera/Stereo-Cameras.html">camera� equipment</a> of the day was so large and� heavy that a <a href="Museum/Steve_Heselton/_h157.emigrant_gap_d_sh.html">photo� wagon</a> was needed. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/sfeature/wetplate.html" target="_blank">Wet� glass plate</a> collodion negatives� had to be produced in the field, required long exposures, and <a href="Museum/Photography.html">albumen� paper</a> required� 20 minutes in sunlight to make photo prints. Today's digital cameras by comparison� are a marvel — to select the best camera to create photographs for� the CPRR Museum website, we found invaluable the extensive reviews on <a href="http://www.DigitalCamera-HQ.com/" title="See Reviews and prices of digital cameras at Digital Camera HQ. (Sponsored Link)" target="_blank">a� great site for digital cameras, Digital Camera HQ</a>.</p>�</blockquote>��<center>�<hr WIDTH="100%">�<center>�<font size="-2">© 1999-2026 CPRR.org – By visiting this site you agree�to the terms of the CPRR.org <a href="Museum/legal.html">User�Agreement</a>. Permission to browse this website is contingent on acceptance�of the User Agreement.</font>�</center>�<hr WIDTH="100%">�<a NAME="Cape Horn"></a><!-- vvvvv ALL COPYING IS PROHIBITED vvvvv --></center>��<center><table CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BACKGROUND="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/Watkins%20Cape%20Horn%20Cabinet%201.jpg" >�<tr>�<td><a href="Museum/index.html"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/See_PERMISSIONS.gif" ALT="Freight Train Rounding Cape Horn (Carleton Watkins)" title=""Freight Train Rounding Cape Horn." Carleton E. Watkins Cabinet Card." BORDER=1 height=503 width=989></font></a></td>�</tr>�</table></center>��<center><!-- ^^^^^ ALL COPYING IS PROHIBITED ^^^^^ --></center>�<font size=-1>Freight Train Rounding <a href="Museum/Construction_1883.html">Cape�Horn</a>, 2487' <a href="Museum/Elevations.html">elevation</a>. </font><font size=-2>�(<a href="Museum/Stereo_World/Watkins/index.html">Watkins</a>' New Cabinet Series,�detail). <b>[<a href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=4331371&e=678749&s=25&size=l" target="_blank">Topo�Map</a>; <a href="http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=12&x=848&y=5414&z=10&w=2" target="_blank">Aerial�Photo</a>]</b></font>�<font size="-2">See other <a href="http://www.carletonwatkins.org" target="_blank">Watkins</a> views�at the <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz134679.html" target="_blank">Getty�Museum</a> & <a href="http://images.rgs.org/search_.aspx?artistID=7193" target="_blank">Royal�Geographic Society</a>.</font><br>�<a href="Museum/Chinese.html"><font color="#000000"><img SRC="CPRR-logo2.jpg" ALT="Chinese" title=""Wood Train and Chinamen in Bloomer Cut." Houseworth Stereoview #1351. [Click to Enlarge]" HSPACE=4 VSPACE=4 BORDER=1 height=80 width=130 align=LEFT></font></a>In�<a href="http://www.chssc.org/timeline.html" title="More likely, recruitment of large numbers of Chinese workers did not occur until March, 1865." target="_blank">1864</a>�the first Chinese workers were hired, and starting in <a href="Museum/Chinese_Laborers.html#China_Labour">March,�1865</a>, thousands�of�Chinese�in�Kwantung�Province�were�<a href="http://discussion.cprr.net/2006/10/chinese-first-recruited.html">recruited</a> by�Central�Pacific�Railroad Co. to work on the western portion of transcontinental railroad. �The roadbed was blasted out of the solid rock mountainside in the fall�of 1865 by lowering�<a href="Museum/Chinese.html">Chinese workers</a> (also�known as "Celestials" after the "Celestial Kingdom" as these tireless workers�referred to their homeland) on <a href="Museum/Chinese.html#baskets">ropes</a>�down the cliff face.
1 These Chinese men drilled and packed black�power charges in the rock, lit the fuses, and had the agility to scamper�up the ropes before the explosions. <a href="Museum/Cape_Horn/index.html">Cape�Horn, Sierra Nevada Mountains,�California</a>.�<br>� ��<center>� <table BORDER WIDTH="75%" BGCOLOR="#FF9D00" >�<tr>� <td>The Chinese made the roadbed and laid the track around Cape Horn. � <a href="Museum/Chinese.html"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/_H204.Tunnel_8_d2_SH.JPG" title=""Chinese Railroad Worker at Tunnel No. 8." Hart Stereoview #204. Courtesy Steve Heselton Collection. [Click to Enlarge]" alt="Chinese worker, Tunnel #8" width="122" height="179" hspace="15" vspace="5" border="1" align="right"></font></a>Though � this took until the spring of 1866, it was not as time-consuming or difficult � as had been feared. Still it remains one of the best known of all � the labors on the Central Pacific, mainly because, unlike the work in � the <a href="Museum/Tunnels.html">tunnel</a>, it makes for a spectacular � diorama. As well it should. Hanging from those [ropes], drilling � holes in the cliff, placing the fuses, and getting hauled up was a spectacular � piece of work. The white laborers couldn't do it. The Chinese � could, if not as a matter of course, then quickly and — at least they � made it look this way — easily. Young <a href="Museum/Lewis_Metzler_Clement.html">Lewis � Clement</a> did the surveying and then took charge of overseeing the railroad � engineering at Cape Horn. � <p>What Clement planned and the <a href="Museum/Chinese.html">Chinese</a> � made became one of the grandest sights to be seen along the entire Central � Pacific line. Trains would halt there so <a href="Museum/Steve_Heselton/_r223.cape_horn_d_sh.html">tourists</a> � could get out of their cars to gasp and gape at the <a href="Museum/Photo-Gallery/_hart_044-1.html">gorge</a> and the grade. � <p><font size="-1">—Stephen E. Ambrose, <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203178/centralpacificra" target="_blank">Nothing � Like It in the World</a></i></b> <br>� <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203178/centralpacificra" target="_blank">The � Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863 - 1869</a></i></b></font></td>�</tr>�</table></center>�<hr WIDTH="100%">�<div align="center">� <p><strong><font color="#CC0000" size="+1"><em><a name="SPRR_Video"></a>This Is My Railroad, </em>SPRR Video,� c. 1940's.</font></strong></p>�</div>�<table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">� <tr>� <td><div align="center"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ThisIsMy1940" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/movies/ThisIsMy1940.gif" alt="This is My Railroad, SPRR 1940" name="" width="160" height="110" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="2"></font></a><br>� <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ThisIsMy1940" target="_blank"><font size="-2"> I</font></a></div></td>� <td><div align="center"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ThisIsMy1940_2" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><img src="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/movies/ThisIsMy1940_2.gif" alt="This is My Railroad, SPRR 1940" name="" width="160" height="120" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="2"></font></a><br>� <font size="-2"> <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ThisIsMy1940_2" target="_blank">II</a></font></div></td>� </tr>�</table>�<p align="center"><font size="-2">Click images to view the two parts of the movie. <em>Courtesy <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger">Internet�Movie Archive</a>.</em></font></p>�<hr>�<center><table BORDER WIDTH="100%" >�<tr>�<td>�<center><a href="Museum/index.html"><img SRC="Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/photographs/Savage.DrivingLastSpike%20CWC.jpg" ALT="Savage. Driving the Last Spike" title=""Driving the Last Spike." Charles R. Savage Carte de Visite." BORDER=0 height=150 width=241></a></center>��<p> <a href="Museum/Bowman_Last_Spike_CHS.html">Driving the Last�Spike</a>�<br><font size=-1> (Savage and Ottinger carte de visite.)</font>�<br><i><font size=-2> Courtesy <a href="http://www.historicamericana.com" target="_blank">C.�Wesley Cowan</a>.</font></i></td>��<td><b><font color="#FF0000"><font size="+3">CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD</font></font></b>�<br><b><font size="+3">Photographic History Museum </font><font size="+2">(CPRR.org)</font></b>�<center><table CELLSPACING=5 CELLPADDING=5 WIDTH="100%" >�<tr>�<td><font size=+0><a href="Museum/index.html">
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No. 7148 "John Chinaman on the RailRoad." Union Pacific Rail Road. Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co." title="Views Along the Line of the Pacific Rail Road. No. 7148 "John Chinaman on the RailRoad." Union Pacific Rail Road. Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co." BORDER=1 height=454 width=442></font></a></td>�</tr>�</table>�<!-- ^^^^^ ALL COPYING IS PROHIBITED ^^^^^ -->�<br>Track workers on a <a href="http://www.handcar.net" target="_blank">hand car</a> in the Utah desert.�<br>�<font size=-1>(E. & H.T. Anthony <a href="http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/stereosc.htm" target="_blank">Stereoview</a>�#7148.) </font><font size=-2><a href="Museum/Exhibit/_anthony_7148_detail.html">See�enlargement</a> and <a href="Museum/Stereo/index.html">"3D" Stereo</a>.</font>�<br>�<font size=-2>Echo Canyon Utah with the rock that <a href="Museum/Russell_Catalog.html">A.�J. Russell</a> labeled "Great Eastern" in the background. 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