Western Union Telegraph Company at Hotel Del Monte, Nov. 8, 1897 : mounted albumen print.

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Western Union Telegraph Company at Hotel Del Monte, Nov. 8, 1897 : mounted albumen print.

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The photograph shows an electric railroad parlor or sleeping car owned by the telegraph company, together with five unidentified men standing in front, and three unidentified women on the car platform.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8130775

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Johnson, C. W. J. (Charles Wallace Jacob), 1833-1903

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C. W. J. Johnson arrived in California during the Gold Rush. After living in Feather River, Grass Valley (1863), and Nevada (1868), he moved to Eureka where he opened a photographic business. In 1881, he settled in Monterey, becoming the Hotel del Monte's first official photographer, and operated a gallery on Alvarado Street. From the description of Card Photographs ca. 1885-1900. (Monterey Public Library). WorldCat record id: 123081970 Johnson was the Hotel Del Monte's firs...

Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...