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Alfred A. Hart Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad

Owning Institution: California Historical Society

About this Collection

Contains seventy stereographs depicting views of the construction and surrounding landscape of the Central Pacific Railroad in northern California and Nevada. Includes a downtown San Francisco view, a photo of the interior hallway of E.B. Crocker's Sacramento residence, and a group portrait of Paiute people. Images in this collection were photographed and published for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Backs of stereographs are labeled with advertising for various photographic series taken and published by Alfred A. Hart including: Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Scenes in the Washoe Range; Scenes in the Valley of the Sacramento; Scenes on the Humboldt River. Most stereographs labeled on back: Alfred A. Hart, Golden State Photographic Gallery, No. 65 J Street, corner of Third, Sacramento, California. View this collection on the contributor's website.
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70 items found in this collection

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East Portals of Tunnels No. 6 and 7, from Tunnel No. 8
Echo Point, opposite Crystal Lake, looking West
Emigrant Gap Tunnel, Wall and Snow Covering
Emigrant Gap, West from (?)
Engine House and Turntable. Rocklin. 22 miles from Sacramento
First Construction Train passing the Palisades, Ten Mile Canyon
Flume and Railroad at Gold Run, 64 miles from Sacramento
Fort Point Cut, 70 feet deep, 600 feet long
Frame of Snow Covering, 90 miles from Sacramento
Front entry, E.B. Crocker residence, Sacramento
Giant's Gap, American River, 2,500 feet perpendicular, 72 miles from Sacramento
High Embankment, Auburn Ravine
Horse Ravine, 77 miles from Sacramento
Horse Ravine Wall and Grizzly Hill Tunnel, 77 miles from Sacramento
Indian viewing R.R. from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento
Lime Point, above Auburn
Limestone Point. Lower Canyon of Truckee
Little Blue Canyon, 74 miles from Sacramento
Looking toward Verdi. Truckee River, 140 miles from Sacramento
Lost Camp Spur Cut, 80 miles from Sacramento
New Hampshire Falls, on Yuba River, Summer view, 96 miles from Sacramento
Paiute Women and Children, at Reno
Prospect Hill Cut, from the north
Railroad West from Fort Point, 76 miles
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