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Title: Laborers and rocks near opening of Summit Tunnel, #119
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1860 and 1869]
Publication Information: Sacramento : Alfred A. Hart
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-1331
STEREO: RAILROADS: CPRR: HART: #119
Yellow mount.
Shows group of Chinese workers with sledge hammers standing and resting on boulders at bottom of rocky cliff.
"Photographed and published for the Central Pacific Railroad Company by Alfred A. Hart, Artist, Sacramento" -- on verso. "Central Pacific Railroad California" -- on front.
Have negative no. 6543 (5 x 4").
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001388639CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1945
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--Donner Pass--Photographs
Railroads--California--Placer County
Railroad construction workers
Railroad tunnels--California--Donner Pass
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Donner Pass
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Donner Pass (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Donner Pass
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)
Donner Pass (Calif.)

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