The Summit House, Dutch Flat, and Donner Lake Wagon Roads – Vintage Print
![The Summit House, Dutch Flat, and Donner Lake Wagon Roads, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fc/fcba053fd2fa-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Summit House, Dutch Flat, and Donner Lake Wagon Roads. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Summit House, Dutch Flat, and Donner Lake Wagon Roads
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The Summit House, a stopping place on the high road over the Sierra Nevada, is the subject of this stereograph, which pairs the Dutch Flat and Donner Lake wagon roads in one view. Those routes carried freight and travelers between the Sacramento Valley mining towns and the mountain passes until the Central Pacific Railroad crossed the same summit in the late 1860s. The Library holds only one half of the original stereoscopic pair, which was issued as number 836 in the Gems of California Scenery series and was meant to be seen in three dimensions through a hand viewer. Its 1866 date places it just as the Donner Pass corridor was becoming central to westward travel.
| 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. 836. 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 × 1,437 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116198 |
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