Photographer/artist: Published by Lightfoot Collection, Huntington St., NY. A.A. Hart
Date taken: 1869
Photo location: Truckee
Type: postcard
Subject: Truckee
County:
Source: TDHS Collection
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Contributor: Mortier Collection
Notes: HCS 7/1/2024. COM0132 Original Truckee Hotel. 1869 East. Truckee Hotel No. 1. Real Photo Post Card RPPC. Master Photographer Collection. #40, The Depot at Truckee. Photographer A.A. Hart. Two Copies of Post Card. Shows Passenger Car - Railroad parked on tracks in front of the Truckee Hotel. Also shows People standing on Flat car on second Track. Roundhouse is visible in Background. Children sitting on loading platform on left side of photo. Business of E.H. Keeler in middle of left side of loading platform.
See also other early Truckee images, ETRU.
Image also in Searls Library at this link. Searls labels it SPRR, 1877 which TDHS believes is too late.
Back of postcard says: Master Photographers. No. 40 - The depot at Truckee. The blurring of some figures in this bustling scene indicates that the photographer A.A. Hart, was unable to perform instantaneous photography in the field. A guest researcher kindly noted that this image also available at Huntington Library at this link.
