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Title: Crested Peak and tunnel no. 10. Eastern slope of Western summit, 256
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: View of construction of railroad; shows frame for snow shed being built on tracks in front of tunnel entrance; white tents at right of tunnel. "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, illustrated for the stereoscope and album" -- verso. "Central Pacific Railroad, California" -- front.
Yellow mount, yellow back.
Stereo-5760.
Mead Kibbey;
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : stereograph ; 3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001605376CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Nevada County
Railroad tunnels--California--Nevada County
Snowsheds--California--Nevada County
Mountains--California
Tents--California--Nevada County
Railroad construction workers
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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