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Title	Sacramento and Yolo Bridge
Date	1858
Description	This picture of the Sacramento and Yolo Bridge was taken just days before its completion in June 1858. It was built by the Sacramento and Yolo Bridge Company and owned by native-Kentuckian G.P. Gillis and native-Alabaman Elam Covington. Although free on its first day of service - July 1 - thereafter, it would be a toll bridge. Its first test came on July 2 when 160 head of cattle were driven over from Washington to Sacramento. The bridge held and one spectator, Helen B. Reid, called it "a structure we may be proud of, as it adds greatly to the improvement of our now rapidly progressing city. Sacramento has flourished more in a short space than any other place in the Union." Notice the Central Pacific Railroad boxcar at the bottom of the photograph.
Holding Institution	Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library
Rights	This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Subjects	Bridges Rivers Sacramento River Construction Railroad, Central Pacific Railroads
Collection	Sacramento Room Photograph Collection
Identifying Number	907