A group of four (4) California stereoviews by Alfred A. Hart (1816-1908).

Each published Sacramento, California: Alfred A. Hart, early 1870s. Each mounted on yellow cardstock mounts with series titles: "Central Pacific Railroad, California" (recto) and "Scenes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains" (verso). View titles printed to mount rectos. Versos with Hart's imprint, 2 with the address 135 J Street. Views include: 

1. 191. Summit Valley, from Emigrant Mountain; alt. 8,200 ft., looking toward Cisco. 

An impressive view of Summit Valley covered in a blanket of snow. 

2. 94. Crystal Lake. Altitude 5907 feet. 

Taken from the stern, Hart captures a man seated at the prow of a rowboat on Crystal Lake in the San Gabriel Mountains, the Crystal Lake House visible on the distant shore. 

3. 299. Truckee River and R.R. at Lime Point. Sierra Nevada Mountains 35 miles distant. 

The railroad snakes along the Truckee River with the Sierra Nevada in the distance. 

4. Crystal Lake House .90 miles. 

On the shore of Crystal Lake, the lodge was an essential stop along the Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road throufh the San Gabriel Mountains.

Alfred Hart produced these impressive and well-composed stereoviews from an expedition along the route of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869, celebrating the joining of the rails at Promontory, Utah. 

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