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Title: Cutting granite at Rocklin. 22 miles from Sacramento, 233
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863-1869
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: Yellow mount, yellow back.
Shows quarry, crane, stone cutters and tools. "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, photographed and published by Alfred A. Hart" -- verso. "Central Pacific Railroad, California" -- front.
Stereo-5758.
Mead Kibbey;
Rocklin quarries supplied granite to Central Pacific for tunnels, culverts and riprap for rail beds.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : stereograph ; 3 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001605382CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Stone-cutters--California--Rocklin--Photographs
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Rocklin
Granite quarrying--California--Rocklin
Hoisting machinery
Rocklin (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Rocklin
Rocklin (Calif.)

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