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hours to see everything in the panorama. This exhibit represented the last of
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Washington, DC, on September 1, 1854, accompanied by a 23-page booklet of descriptions. Visitors said they needed two
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Hassrick, Peter H. (Winter 2014). "John Mix Stanley-An Artist's View of the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey and the Far Northwest".
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