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, September 1865. Caption: "Donner-Lake. Autumnal sunset in the Sierra Nevada (west range). Scene near the summit on the Dutch Flat-Road.", "Summit-range. Site for tunnel of the Pacific Railroad (Pollard Hotel), Truckee Range, site of the cabins of the Donner Party, 1846. Spike[?] below flock[?] of birds showing surveys[?] for the track of the Western Pacific Railroad.", "Vischer, September 1865". Two wagons hitched to each other, two horses, and a six-horse drawn stage travel the dirt road through the thick forest.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : transparency, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs art
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