ITEMS

"East Portal of Summit Tunnel"

Dublin Core

Title

"East Portal of Summit Tunnel"

Subject

Photography of railroads

Photography, Stereoscopic

Utah--Transcontinental Railroad National Back Country Byway

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

West (U.S.)--Pictorial works

Railroad construction workers

Horses

Stereographs

Railroad tunnels

Description

Stereoview photograph #198 by Alfred Hart for the Central Pacific Railroad collection. Photograph features a railroad worker with a dump cart standing in the entrance to a tunnel in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Caption: "East Portal of Summit Tunnel, Western Summit. Length 1,660 feet."

Creator

Hart, Alfred A. (photographer)

Source

Library of Congress. "East Portal of summit tunnel. Western Summit. Length 1,660 feet." Prints and Photographs Division (C-DIG-stereo-1s00547, LOT 11477, no. 100) Accessible at:https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/stereo.1s00547/