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Title: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains : between Omaha and San Francisco
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James) Union Pacific Railroad Company. Stereoscopic views across the Continent West from Omaha
Subjects: Stereoscopic views
Publisher: Newtown, Queens County, N.Y. : S.J. Sedgwick
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eet, Omaha 10.—Omalia from Height 11.—U. P. R. R. Offices 1*2.—Faruham Street from Height 13.—Block on Farnliam Stieet 14.—General View of Omaha i 15.—Churches No. 2 16.—Street Tiew of Machine Shop I 17.—Interior of Passenger Coach, Omaha 1 IS.—Ditto do. 1 19.—Passenger Coach, U. P. R. R. i 20.—Interior of Puhnan Palace Car ! 21.—3klachine Shops from Bluffs j 22.—Machine Shops, Omaha 23.—Turn Taljle and Machine Shoi>.s i 24.—Tank and Machine Shops i 25.—Distant vie\y Machine Shoj) 2fi.—Interior of Carpenters Shoi)s 27.—Omaha Machine Shops from West ■Z^.—Machine Shops looking West ■29.—Machine Shops from Lumber Yard 30.—Birds-eye View of Omaha 31.—Old Capitol, Omaha 7> Tli€ suhjcct of iliis Piditre uixhrlined. \ from Nature, suitable for Artists Sturiies. From no other source, exceptincr an actual visit, can sucli a correct idea of the Oreat West be obtained. They (Prof. Sedgwicks Illuminated photographs) have never been surpassed
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by anything that has yet been given in this city, Jilizabelh (X. J.) Duily Journal. PROF. SEDGWICK S LECTURES consist of Selections from these Views taken on glass,hence are called transparencies. By the aid of apowerful Oxy-Hydrogen Camera these are magnifiedmany hundreds, even thousands of times, and the en-larged images are presented to the eye in all the beautyand grandeur of the originals. Hundreds of people arethus enabled to see them at the same time. The lecturergives a concise and clear statement of the picture in view.This unique method in effect carries the audience fromscene to scene^ in their natural ordcrr, across the wonder-ful country termed our Great West. Wherever Prof. Sedgwicks Photographs are shcvn, crowdedhouses must naturally follow. The chief feature of these Across the Continent Lecturesconsists in 2,000 transparent photographs, showing with great vivid-ness and accuracy the most striking scenery of the North AmericanContinent. These lectures have been deliver

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