Trestle work - Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Trestle work - Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Trestle work - Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley
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Trestle work at Promontory Point, in the Salt Lake Valley, shows the timber framing the Central Pacific Railroad used to carry its track over low, soft ground and across water near the Great Salt Lake in 1868. The photograph appeared as plate XXVIII in *Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery*, a 1870 volume by geologist F.V. Hayden, which presented thirty views along the transcontinental line from Omaha to Sacramento. Trestles like these were built quickly from cut lumber, since crews had to keep laying track toward the meeting point at Promontory Summit, where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines were joined in 1869. The print is worth studying for its close look at the sheer labor of building a railroad through the western wilderness.
| Created / published | [1868] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographical and geological features, and some account of the resources of the great West; containing thirty photographic views along the line of the Pacific rail road, from Omaha to Sacramento, / F.V. Hayden. New York : Julius Bien, 1870, [plate] XXVIII. |
| Subjects | Central Pacific Railroad Company--Facilities--Utah--1860-1870. Trestles--Utah--1860-1870. Railroad bridges--Utah--1860-1870. Railroad construction & maintenance--Utah--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,028 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224602 |
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