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"Academic politics is so vicious because so little
is at stake."
—Aphorism attributed to Henry Kissinger.
Photographer and link to related CPRR Museum Catalog
- Links to individual Central Pacific Railroad images
- \ and to images on related topics such as city views, Chinese, etc.
- at the California Heritage Collection ...
Alfred A. Hart Stereograph Collection Relating to the Central Pacific Railroad, ca. 1866-1869
Hart (Catalog)
Muybridge (Catalog)(Catalog includes the CPRR Museum links to Muybridge railroad images)
- 1120 (New Series). Summit Station With West End of Tunnel. C.P.R.R.
- 1104 (New Series). Soda Springs, Near the Summit C.P.R.R.
- 1106. Mary Hopkin's Cottage, Soda Springs.
- 1112 (New Series). Rounding Cape Horn. C.P.R.R.
- 1114 (New Series). The Cañon of the American River, from Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
- 1115 (New Series). Filling in Secret Town Trestle, C.P.R.R. [Chinese RR Workers]
- 1117 (New Series). Summit Valley, Castle Peak and Snow Sheds. C.P.R.R.
- 1118 (New Series). Summit Valley and Donner Peak, C.P.R.R.
- 1119. Lake Mary-Summit, C.P.R.R.
- 1122 (New Series). Donner Lake. C.P.R.R.
- 1124. Reno-View East, C.P.R.R.
- \Cliff House. San Francisco.
- \Golden Gate, from Telegraph Hill, [San Francisco]
Houseworth (Catalog)Savage & Ottinger (Catalog)
- 1236. Section of the Long Ravine Bridge -- 120 feet high.
- 1261. Teaming from the Central Pacific Railroad, at Cisco, Placer County. [1866]
- 1293. Bridge at the Second Crossing of the Truckee River, Nevada.
- 1307. Tunnel No.1 -- Blue Canon, C. P. R. R.
- 1310. Looking down the American River -- From the C. P. R. R. above Alta.
- 1317. Secret Town Bridge -- 1,100 ft. long, 95 ft. high.
- 1326. The Valley -- 1,400 feet below Cape Horn.
- 1327. American River -- From Cape Horn.
- 1329. C. P. R. R. Train at Cape Horn.
- 1330. C. P. R. R. Train rounding Cape Horn.
- 1333. Train rounding Cape Horn --View from the valley, 1,400 feet below.
Chas. Weitfle, Stereoscopic Views on Line of Union Pacific R. R.
- [UPRR Engine #119]
- Devil's Slide, showing trade. [UPRR]
- (Devil's Gate Weber Canyon Utah) [UPRR]
- \(E. Temple St. Salt Lake City.)
- \Scene on East Temple Street.
- 60. Cascade & Falls, Ogden Canon, Utah.
- 401. "Pulpit Rock" Echo Canon, U. P. R. R.
- 414. Devil's Gate, Weber Canon.
- 416. "The Devil's Slide" Weber Canon.
- 417. Devil's Gate Mountain, Weber Canon.
- 420. 1,000 Mile Tree, Weber Canon.
- \429. "Fort Nonsense" near Sherman.
- \434. The Tabernacle, Salt Lake City.
- \435. The Late Brigham Young's Residence.
- 449. View near Ogden, Utah. U. P. R. R.
William Henry Jackson, Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad (Catalog) Savage & Ottinger (Catalog) Chas. Weitfle, Stereoscopic Views on the Line of the Union Pacific R. R.
E. & H.T. AnthonyC. Bierstadt Alfred A. Hart [including *published by Frank Durgan, and C. Watkins**] (Catalog)
- \67. View of Sacramento.
- 68. Front Street, with the Levee, Sacramento.
- 68. Front Street, with the Levee, Sacramento.
- \75. St. George's Hotel, Sacramento.
- \76. J. Street, Sacramento.
- \101. Mirror Lake, Watkins' and Clouds' Rest, Mts. and Reflections.
- 7148. John Chinaman on the Rail Road.
Houseworth (Catalog)
- 76. Giant's Gap, American River, 2,500 feet perpendicular. 72 miles from Sacramento.**
- 113. Castle Peak from Grant's Butte, Western Summit.**
- 166. Emigrant Gap Tunnel, Wall and Snow Covering.*
- 168. Bear Valley, 85 miles from Sacramento.*
- 227. Profile Rock, near the first crossing of the Truckee River.*
- 261. Railroad around Crested Peak. View from Foot of Donner Lake.
- 339. Alcove in Palisades, Ten Mile Cañon.**
- \[The World as seen in California: Water Lily in bloom]
- \[Scenes in the Valley of the Sacramento: View across rooftops]
Wm. B. Ingersoll Additional Muybridge stereoviews
- \105. Kearney [Kearny] Street, west side, from Commercial to Clay Street, San Francisco.
- \129. Stockton St. looking North from Clay. [San Francisco]
- \149. Montgomery St., San Francisco, from Market St. Instantaneous.
- \149. Montgomery St., San Francisco, from Market St. Instantaneous.
- \292. Vallejo Street Wharf. [Ships]
- \294. The City Front, Broadway Wharf. [San Francisco]
- 295. The Sacramento Steamer Chrysopolis.
- \357. General View of the City, from corner Sacramento & Powell Sts. [San Francisco]
- \502. Lincoln School House, Fifth Street near Market. [San Francisco, 1866]
- \526. The City --from corner Jones and California Streets, looking towards Mission Bay. [San Francisco]
- \560. Telegraph Hill -- From the Nucleus Hotel, corner Market and Third Streets. [San Francisco]
- \621. Feeding the Teams, Scene on Placerville Route.
- \652. The Saw Mill. Scene in the Valley of Lake Tahoe.
- 776. Summit Valley, the Head-waters of the Yuba River. Donner Peak and Pass in the Distance.
- 844. Donner Lake and Eastern Summit. From the road on the Western Summit.
- 1069. Sacramento River, from the Bridge at Sacramento City.
- 1075. The River and Steamers at Sacramento City.
- 1093. Jehovah Gap, American River, from the Central Pacific Railroad, Placer County.
- 1095. American River from the C. P. R. R. around Cape Horn. Bridge and Road to Yakee Jim's Placer Co.
- \1167. Bear River Bridge. Stage Road from Colfax to Grass Valley.
- 1201. J. Street, Sacramento, from Hastings' Block.
- 1207. Cabin of the Sacramento River Steamer Capital.
- 1270. The Summit of Castle Peak, 10,000 feet altitude. An extinct Volcano near Donner Pass -- Central Pacific Railroad.
- 1328. C. P. R. R. Train at Cape Horn.
- 1496. Eastern Bound Train, leaving Oakland Point, Western Pacific Railroad.
- Dutch Flat, Placer County --from the South.
- \San Francisco Bay. [Boat]
- \[San Francisco, 1865]
J. J. Reilly (Catalog)
- San Jose Train Depot
- \850. The "Heathen Chinee" with Pick and Shovel. [Chinese, Gold Mining]
- \853. Celestial Diggins, Mongolian Flat, in 1849. [Chinese, Gold Mining]
A. J. Russell (Catalog) C. R. Savage (Catalog) John P. Soule I. W. Taber C. Watkins Unknown Photographer
- Donner Lake and Snow Sheds, C. P. R. R., Cal.
- Coming through the Palisades, C. P. R. R.
- Cape Horn, from Colfax, C. P. R. R.
- [Stanford's Mansion?]
- \122. Birdseye View of Sacramento from the top of State Capitol, Cal.
- \123. Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Cal.
- \125. Safe Deposit Building, San Francisco, Cal.
- \142. Chinese Woman and Child, San Francisco, Cal.
- \Kearney [Kearny] Street, from Third Street, San Francisco, Cal.
- \The Bonanza Bank Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.
- "Across the continent." Engraving, H. Schile.
- "California Terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad." Engraving, April 6, 1871.
- "Snow sheds at summit station, the end of the up-grade on the C.P.R.R." Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 27, 1878.
- "Across the continent, the snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains." Engraving from a sketch by Joseph Becker.
- [Transcontinental railroad board game.] Geo. Thistleton, San Francisco, 1872.
- [Chinese Advertisement for CPRR Shipping at $2/ton.] Britton & Rey, Jan. 3, 1870.
- [California News Notes map of SPRR/CPRR connection at Goshen.] Timetable map with newspaper, Sept. 9, 1876.
- "Union Pacific Railroad, a trip across the North American Continent from Omaha to Ogden." Ten chromolithographs from the Nelson Guidebook, c. 1871.
Courtesy The
Bancroft Library.
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of California, Berkeley, as owner of restricted access physical original
19th
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Note: The above non-visual links are provided with
the permission of The Bancroft Library. We are working with the Director
of The Bancroft Library in an attempt to further clarify digital image
rights
issues and hope to soon include visuals from the California Heritage
Collection.
Huntington,
Collis Potter, 1821-1900, CPRR Director
Muybridge,
Eadweard, 1830-1904, Photographer
Watkins,
Carleton E., 1829-1916, Photographer who acquired and published Alfred
A. Hart's negatives
Taber,
Isaiah West, 1830-1912, Photographer who acquired and published Carleton
Watkins' negatives
Lewis,
Oscar, 1893-1992
Nordhoff,
Charles, 1830-1901
Norris,
Frank, 1870-1902, (Author of 1901 book "The Octopus")