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Snow Plow of the Central Pacific R.R. Company - Near Cisco – Historic Print

Snow Plow of the Central Pacific R.R. Company - Near Cisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Snow Plow of the Central Pacific R.R. Company - Near Cisco, [published 1866]. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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 stereograph shows a snow plow of the Central Pacific Railroad near Cisco, a station on the company's line over the Sierra Nevada in Placer County, California. The view is one half of a pair issued in the Gems of California Scenery series, and the Library of Congress holds only this half. The railroad's mountain crossing was among the hardest stretches of track in the country, where winter storms could bury the line under deep drifts and avalanches. Plows like this one, pushed by locomotives, were central to keeping trains moving through the snow. The record's identifying details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1263. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad--Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,423 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115601

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