Hart, Alfred A.
American (1816-1908)

TITLE ON OBJECT: First Crossing of the Truckee River
SERIES TITLE: Central Pacific Railroad

ca. 1869
stereograph, albumen print
7.4 x 7.7 cm. on 8.8 x 17.5 cm. mount
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Richmond W. Strong
GEH NEG: 46668
81:6003:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4641
NON-GEH NUMBER: pub. series #0224

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 221.//

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (letterpress) "Central Pacific Railroad. C.E. Watkins...[title]..."

FRAME: stereoview on orange mount

NOTES: Cataloged 10/85, SB. Negative printed by A.A. Hart. Watkins purchased and began to publish Hart's negatives under his own name in 1869.

SUBJECT: architecture, railroad bridge