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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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[Brooklyn Daily Times.]

"Prof. Sedgwick has just completed a course of most interesting
lectures upon the views of the principal features which strike the
traveller on his way across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, from
whence he shipped to China and showed the ' Heathen Chinee ' to
be a much more elevated being in the scale of entities than Chris-
tians have been taught to believe.
" This method of imparting instruction is a sort of mental teleg-
raphy, by which a person may travel all over the world and con-
verse with all sorts of people and see all the curiosities of the earth
without leaving his drawing-room. It is destined to become very
popular and to do a great deal of good. Prof. Sedgwick acquitted
himself with great credit."

[Providence Journal.]

" Prof. Sedgwick gave another of his interesting illustrated lectures,
' Across the Continent,' befo-
re a large audience in Barneys Hall,
Saturday evening. To-night is the last lecture in the course and will
be on China and the Chinese. These pictures being finely colored
something fine is to be expected."


"The spacious parlors of the Institute were filled to overflowing with
ladies and gentlemen who manifested their appreciation by close attention
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ROUNDING CAPE HORN, 2,000 FEET ABOVE THE AMERICAN RIVER.


and enthusiastic applause."—Pomeroys Democrat.

"These lectures have been given over 400 nights and have met

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