East Portal of Summit Tunnel

Getty Museum

East Portal of Summit Tunnel

Creator

Alfred A. Hart

American Photographer · 1816–1908

All works by this person →
Artist

As official photographer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Alfred A. Hart spent five years documenting the construction of this legendary railroad from Sacramento, California, to Promontory Summit, Utah. Between 1864 and 1869, Hart accompanied the engineers and crews as they made their way across valleys, deserts, and mountains, building trestles, digging tunnels, and constructing enormous embankme

More on Getty ULAN
Date
1862–1869
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
d08a4ca3-4d05-41ed-80b7-129b30a9cdf6

View of two wagons hitched together and drawn by horses along a road on the side of a mountain, heading toward a tunnel entrance cut into the face of the mountain. The rugged landscape features several small wooden buildings scattered throughout.

View at Getty Museum ↗

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.OSu8I2O4RQzQCzQB.tEexSdETg_RSdLSzmoiSQyd5k8ZJNlioZ9VsxWicdX0ijX03WoheQIEJB_RIPHrVadjP4YJ6hdjMP7JC6Ga_Z33hyjlGollwk1t-w6mGiRZ85eb3Wa4TarNz8TwgYdY378g-ISCMs4Ut81WpUue7Lh9ELewlTUrM-Fhhr-4NzVsaSBXxswU1Z-4b_h4uwHhfBrMrh1YrZ34S1_02n0dtvf1PdXaTf3D7U5R3LwENze6GcVVrKHIKtYk78KYB-ERpOpOmwj4Cl0jwO-vKNmtcGplR8zuJ46RxRaMMmPkHgc8Y4ARAGgatVgnnBeXAvWTvHpiqaEhJuzNua9Gy8j0mBfOfZnCk6A7SPZFs7FZtKMSfOlfgjD43Fk7kCr46sMcy4aIFj_bsjEamKsZB2AdCSee at Getty Museum QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.t6WftDC6r9JnOUgH.pTmZVG38MJgY_oTI-CGYRvS-r73_4gTuF4EaLpb-4x5trj_hMtgjJQUFxIHRagm0psXZZFKEMFGdct5DUKsbmk9JWWB_v-8YEyZg5Y8NOZvudKhIzWSREKaqGOqxWlu4s1pnQrmbearV79r8dftv1BpXCSHPNm8puRZGdagz-UKEYZpf9llvh72heFV1Kx4prTZ3Ho-GB9Whp6_MlNsePH_1Y2VPb6Tq2aORrO-eeP35LcLuZ6mAk6a9PT2IzAB-YBB3R52Yj1txW7Y7G6CFZ0L9ZKZgkGHdBKctOKHfpA9vwfryophteJgssS9ZMjTRwaC1V6EJI_HmDOMJ9f31qg4-D9QBcBkAR8c-0t8cLbIcAF8-3PI4BWhxf7Q
Open this page
See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.