Camera and Locomotive: Two Tracks across the Continent: Seeing the Railroad in 3D
Posted by: Lara Szypszak
The following is the fifth in a series of guest posts by Micah Messenheimer, Associate Curator of Photography, Prints and Photographs Division, that discuss the parallel development of two technologies in the 19th century: railroads and photography. Capturing the entirety of the Central Pacific Railroad from 1864–69, photographer Alfred Hart (1816–1908) traveled east from Sacramento, …
Posted in: Photographs, Series: Camera and Locomotive