Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento – Historic Reproduction
![Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif. : Golden State Photographic Gallery, [between 1865 and 1869] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/115718d01ae9-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento
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Set on a rise above the Palisades, along the Humboldt River in Nevada, this stereograph shows a Native American figure looking down at the newly laid Central Pacific tracks, with the caption noting the spot lies 435 miles from Sacramento. The Central Pacific pushed east through this country in the mid-1860s, and the rail line brought surveyors, workers and outsiders into lands long used by Shoshone and other Native peoples. Sacramento's Golden State Photographic Gallery issued the view as part of a numbered series on the Humboldt route, and such cards were sold to a public eager to see the new transcontinental railroad.
| Created / published | Sacramento, Calif. : Golden State Photographic Gallery, [between 1865 and 1869] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 340. Title from item. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada. Scenes on the Humboldt River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,922 px · prints to 10 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127285 |
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