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Heading of East Portal, Tunnel No. 8, from Donner Lake Railroad, Western Summit, #204

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Title: Heading of East Portal, Tunnel No. 8, from Donner Lake Railroad, Western Summit, #204
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
Contributor: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1880 and 1889]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Watkins
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Stereo-0896.
Attributed to Hart, negatives purchased from Hart by C.E. Watkins.
Orange mount, pink verso.
Shows rocky mountain rising on left, tunnel in background, Chinese worker with two barrels suspended from pole across his shoulders in center. Tunnel located near Donner Lake.
"Watkins' New Series of Pacific Coast Views" -- front.
Have negative no. 6544 (5 x 4").
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001388636CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1942
Language: English
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroads--California--Nevada County
Chinese Americans--California--Nevada County
Mountains--California--Nevada County
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Nevada County
Railroad tunnels--California--Nevada County
Yokes
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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