Guide to "The Real West: Empire Builders"
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
November 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: V0085
Creator:
Coughlin, Brian.
Title: "The Real West: Empire Builders" [videorecording]
Dates: 1993
Physical Description:
0.125 Linear feet 1 videotape (VHS)
Summary: This episode, produced by Brian Coughlin, of the series "The Real West" tells the history of Collis P. Huntington, Leland
Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins (the Big Four) and the development of the railroads in the West. It also mentions
the lives of Jane Stanford and Leland Stanford Jr., the history of Stanford University, Eadweard Muybridge, and the development
of motion pictures.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
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Gift of Greystone Production, 1993.
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"The Real West: Empire Builders" (V0085). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
This episode, produced by Brian Coughlin, of the series The Real West tells the history of Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford,
Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins (the Big Four) and the development of the railroads in the West. It also mentions the lives
of Jane Stanford and Leland Stanford Jr., the history of Stanford University, Eadweard Muybridge, and the development of motion
pictures.
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Coughlin, Brian.
Coughlin, Brian.
Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888.
Hopkins, Mark, 1813-1878.
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Stanford University -- General subdivision--History.;
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Stanford, Leland, 1868-1884.
Videorecordings.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
Sources from the collections in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, were used in the research
and as images in this segment.
Box 1
Video