Union Pacific Locomotive #119 and Central Pacific Locomotive #60 ...

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It has keen w experience is the course of exaiainlsg several
hundred* geraajss a few thousands* of milroad. and locoiE&tive
of the lS6O's-l87O's period la a somber of institutions, historical
societies, and lifcrariea to find that only a very few are identified
as to who took the photograph, the data ifcakan, and frefuently a
meaningful identification of the scene, 5Ma Is true even of the
collections ia tile Union Pacific and Central Pacific Ballrosds.
Oftea pictures are wrongly identified* IKhave learned titat oae of
the beat ways of identifying a picture ia to find it in-a stereo-
seopie viev. Is the f^riod of tlie Golden Spiite sweats, tfete priaeiple
outl&t for photographic wrk was to a&fce aad s©lX seta of
stereo views ©a a given subject* it was for most persons at that
tSm the only substitute withia their jaeans of t&kiag a trip to far
off lands and en^oyiu® novel and stra8g