Central Pacific Railroad depot at Cisco - General View – Vintage Wall Art
![Central Pacific Railroad depot at Cisco - General View, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/876dcf43af8a-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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Central Pacific Railroad depot at Cisco - General View
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Few Central Pacific depots in the Sierra Nevada were as closely tied to the line's mountain crossing as the one at Cisco, a stop on the Donner Pass route. Its name honors John J. Cisco, a New York banker who helped finance the railroad. The Central Pacific pushed its tracks over the Sierra in the early 1860s, and the work relied heavily on Chinese laborers who blasted tunnels and laid track through steep granite country. This view is only one half of a stereograph pair, issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, so the scene would have been seen in three dimensions through a stereoscope viewer. The record's publication date of 1866 is unverified.
| 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. 1257. 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 × 1,478 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116148 |
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