Stereoviews
Alfred A. Hart was a 19th-century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s.
California has long been a favorite subject of the 19th Century stereo view photographers. Gold mining camps and minig operations, the railroad, natural features like lakes, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the towns and cities that were springing up and even Native Indian people can be found as subjects of these stereoviews for sale.
Any of the stereoviews marked as C.P.R.R (Hart/Watkins) are those featured in the Stereo Views of C.P.R.R. - the official photos documenting the building of the Central Pacific Railroad's leg of the Transcontinental Railroad, starting at Sacramento, CA an making its way east through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Native American Indian life is show in these stereoviews. Their homes, how they lived and how they dressed are all depicted in these stereo views of Western US, Native American Indians
This is a group of stereoviews by Louis Hellen 1839-1928.from the Modoc Indian War, an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon.
The Lake Tahoe region in both California and Nevada were a favorite subject of the stereoview photographers who wanted to share in the beauty they and relatively few tourists saw when they visited the lake. It was the gold and silver discoveries as well as the Central Pacific Railroad's trek across the Sierra Nevada Mountains that help to make the Lake Tahoe basin famous. These stereo views and other related Lake Tahoe photographs and collectibles represent places, events and history of the region.
Sacramento became the permanent state capital of California in 1879. Prior to that, Sacramento grew as central outpost town for the great gold rush, the start of the western leg of the Transcontinental Railroad, an important shipping port for distribution of good throughout the Western US. These stereoviews of Sacramento show some of the history of Sacramento, CA.
Nevada has a long history, so the stereo view photographers used Nevada as the subject of many of their stereoviews about silver and gold mining camps and mining operations, the railroad, natural features like lakes, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the towns and cities that were springing up.
