Visual Materials

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

Description: Man standing on roof of the snowshed is identified as Arthur Brown, Superintendent of bridges and trestles for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1864-approximately 1869.
Call number: photCL 184
Creator: Hart, Alfred A (1816-1908)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Elizabeth T. and Charles Yale, 1966.; received from B. Tighe, 1970.; purchased from Mead Kibbey, 1995 and 1999.; gift of Mead Kibbey, 2012.; purchased for the Huntington by the Library Collectors' Council from Gene Quintana Fine Art, January 2013.
Dimensions: mounts 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format) +

Crested Peak from Railroad. Roof of Snow Gallery

Visual Materials

Hart #253 The man in the photograph is Arthur Brown, Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings.

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

Visual Materials

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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