252. Snow Gallery around Crested Peak

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  252. Snow Gallery around Crested Peak. Timbers 12x14 in. 20 in. apart

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  This collection contains 372 stereographic photographs (including some variants and duplicates) by photographer A. A. Hart that document the construction of the western half of first transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad between 1864 and 1869. The collection includes all but seven of the original series, numbered from 1 to 364 by Hart (lacking 193, 323, 333, 358, 359, 362, and 364). The images chronicle the advancement of the railroad over 742 miles in California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Nevada, and Utah. The majority of the photographs are views of mountains, lakes, rivers, and forested areas (some with stumps from clear-cutting in the foreground), often with railroad tracks running through the center of the images. In addition, there are also images of locomotives, Chinese and other workers, equipment, bridges, tunnels, frontier and mining towns, construction camps, as well as some images of Native Americans, including Paiute and Shoshone Indians. The stereographs primarily contain Hart's own Sacramento imprint with series titles including: "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains"; "Scenes in the Valley of the Sacramento"; "Scenes in the Washoe Range"; "Scenes on the Humboldt River"; and "Scenes near Great Salt Lake". Interspersed in the collection are stereographs published without credit to Hart by Frank Durgan and Carleton E. Watkins.

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  253. Crested Peak, from Railroad

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  "Roof of Snow Gallery." -- printed note below title.

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  256. Crested Peak and Tunnel No. 10

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  "Eastern Slope of Western Summit." -- printed note below title.

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  209. View from Crested Peak — 8,500 feet altitude

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  "Donner Lake and Railroad Line." -- printed note below title.

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  254. Inside view of Snow Gallery at Summit

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  "Bolting the Frame to the Rocks." -- printed note below title.

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  253. Crested Peak, from Railroad. Roof of Snow Gallery

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  Man standing on roof of the snowshed is identified as Arthur Brown, Superintendent of bridges and trestles for the Central Pacific Railroad.

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