H69.459.528

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Andrew J. Russell

Summit Sierra Nevadas, Snow Sheds

1869

glass

3.25 HIGH x 3.25 WIDE x 0.125 DEEP
(8.25 HIGH x 0.32 DEEP)

Museum Purchase

H69.459.528

inscription: "Summit Sheds & tunnel." Handwritten in ink at bottom on lantern slide edge. "545" handwritten in ink at lower left on lantern slide edge.

Tag words:

california
donner lake
sierra nevada mountains
transcontinental railroad
union pacific railroad

History

"Summit sheds and tunnel #545" Old number Russell negative number. See donor file.

"Summit Sierra Nevadas, Snow Sheds" title per Glenn Willumson for the NEA Russell Grant, July 2013 - June 2015. Titles derived from the lists on the verso of Russell stereographs published after his return to New York in fall 1869.

Matching Russell stereograph number 545 bears the title "Snow sheds at the summit of the Sierra Nevadas" (DHJ, 5/21/15).

This work (by Andrew J. Russell), identified by Oakland Museum of California, is free of known copyright restrictions.

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