Evening View, Southern Shore, Donner Lake - Central Pacific Railroad – Antique Wall Art
![Evening View, Southern Shore, Donner Lake - Central Pacific Railroad, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa60e09bd8e7-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 Evening View, Southern Shore, Donner Lake - Central Pacific Railroad brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Evening View, Southern Shore, Donner Lake - Central Pacific Railroad
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The southern shore of Donner Lake, seen here in evening light, is what sets this view apart from other scenes on the board. The lake takes its name from the Donner Party, whose emigrants were snowbound in the surrounding mountains during the winter of 1846 and 1847. When this stereograph was published in 1866, the Central Pacific Railroad was building its line east over the Sierra Nevada, and the lake lay close to that route. Only one photograph from the original pair survives, so this print is a single half of a view once meant to be seen in three dimensions.
| 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. 1281. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Lake. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,464 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116157 |
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