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"Heading of East Portal Tunnel No 8"

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Title

"Heading of East Portal Tunnel No 8"

Subject

transcontinental railroad; Alfred Hart; Donner Lake; Central Pacific Railroad; California history; early photography; carte-de-visite

Description

Carte-de-visite style photograph by Alfred Joseph Hart entitled, "Western Summit." Photograph features a Chinese railroad worker and the heading of a railroad tunnel. Caption: "Heading of East Portal, Tunnel No. 8, from Donner Lake Railroad, Western Summit."

Creator

Alfred Hart

Source

Stanford Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Hart Collection https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/gv106fk5547

Publisher

Stanford University Libraries

Date

1865-1869

Rights

Public Domain

Identifier

DNO-0048_Heading of East Portal Tunnel No 8.jpg

Coverage

Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

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