Snow plow – Vintage Wall Art
![Snow plow, Sacramento, Calif. : Golden State Photographic Gallery, [between 1865 and 1869] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4c819a9b1eb0-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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Snow plow comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few jobs on the Central Pacific's Sierra Nevada line mattered more than keeping the track clear, and this stereograph shows the snow plow built for that work. Winter storms in the high mountains could bury the rails under deep drifts, so crews relied on heavy plows fitted to the front of locomotives to force a path through. The card was issued by a Sacramento studio in the late 1860s, while the railroad was pushing east over the range, and it belongs to a numbered series documenting scenes along the line. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two nearly identical images merge into a single three-dimensional view of the machinery.
| 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. 239. Title from item. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 740 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132768 |
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