Description: PC0002 Image no. 221. Truckee River below Truckee Station looking west toward Donner Lake
Photographer/artist: Alfred A. Hart
Date taken: 1860s
Photo location: Truckee River
Type: photo
Subject: Transcontinental Railroad Construction
County: Placer
Source: Stanford Collection
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Contributor: Stanford Libraries
Notes: Original image is 3.6 MB. HCS 1/14/2022. Image at Stanford site. See also Goldbaum and Huffman's 2012 book, Waiting for the Cars, p. 284. The authors state that this view faces west and was taken about a mile east of Truckee, today, close to the modern Highway 267 bridge across the Truckee River. For a comparative current google view, see this link.
Rights: NOT FOR SALE; research only
Identifier: AAH0042
Serial Number: 2096
Donation: Alfred A. Hart Collection (AAH) collection (#34)
