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Title	Tulare Valley, California; gathering flowers in February,
Creator	Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date	ca. 1868
Decade	1860-1869
Part Of	Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel
Place	California
Description	This is plate 122 in a series of views by Alexander Gardner made in 1867 and 1868 starting in St. Louis, Missouri through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to San Francisco, California. Series made for the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division later renamed the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Gardner accompanied the survey party seeking the best southern route for the railroad going through Kansas along the old Santa Fe Trail south to Albuquerque, then west along the 35th parallel to the Tehachapi Pass before heading north to San Francisco. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, soldiers, Native Americans, other people, forts, vegetation, geological formations, rivers, plains, mountain ranges, and railroad construction. The series is significant as the earliest comprehensive U.S. western landscape survey.
Notes	Alex. Gardner, Photographer, 511 Seventh Street, Washington. No. 122.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1855396
Keywords	visual arts; U.S. West; California
Physical Description	1 photographic print: albumen; 15 x 20.3 cm. on 30.3 x 45.7 cm. mount
Form/Genre	Photographic prints Albumen prints Landscape photographs Portfolios
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2006
Digital Format	Displayed as image/jp2; uploaded as image/jpg
Archival File Resolution	Archival scan: 1200 dpi
Digitization Process	Digitization process: scanned at 1200 ppi; derivatives: shadow detail adjusted and image resized at 3000 pixels wide in Photoshop.
Call Number	Ag1982.0214x
Upload File Name	ag1982_0214x_122_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	00000122.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Vault-Ag1982-0214x
Digital Collection	U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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