Yuba River, near Crystal Lake. Central Pacific Railroad – Vintage Wall Art
![Yuba River, near Crystal Lake. Central Pacific Railroad, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40db870a85ed-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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A window into the past: Yuba River, near Crystal Lake. Central Pacific Railroad, 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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Yuba River, near Crystal Lake. Central Pacific Railroad
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The caption places this view on the Yuba River near Crystal Lake, along the Central Pacific Railroad's line in the Sierra Nevada, the route the company was pushing over Donner Pass in the mid-1860s. Albumen stereographs like this one were popular parlor and travel items in those years, and this card belongs to a numbered series titled *Gems of California Scenery*. The Library holds only one half of what was issued as a stereo pair, so the image reads as a flat view, but the surviving print still shows how photographers presented the railroad's mountain country to viewers far from it. The record's details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1271. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,481 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115955 |
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