Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer of the Donner Lake area and Donner Peak, California, ca.1863. Caption: "Donner-Lake and Donner-Peak. Dutch-flat - Virginia route, summit-scene in the Sierra Nevada, in high Summer. Completion of summit tunnels, Central Pacific Railroad, south of Tunnels no. 7 and 8.", "Vischer, 1863[?]". Large boulders and lightening-struck trees dominate the scene in Donner Pass.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : transparency, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographs art
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