Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Webster's Station – Antique Print
![Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Webster's Station, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/62d9d563da2c-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 historic photograph of Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Webster's Station brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Webster's Station
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Only one half of this stereograph pair is in the Library's collection: a view of Sugar Loaf Mountain and Webster's Station, published in 1866 as number 615 in the series *Gems of California Scenery*. The record ties it to the Placerville-Tahoe route, a road that carried travelers and freight from the gold country of El Dorado County up into the Sierra Nevada toward Lake Tahoe. Stations along such roads offered horses, meals, and rest to drivers and passengers, so a view of one would have interested viewers for its practical as well as its scenic value. Stereographs like this were meant to be seen through a hand viewer, which made the landscape appear to stand in three dimensions.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 615. LOT subdivision subject: Placerville--Tahoe Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,462 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116050 |
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