Hart stereoview of a Pullman Palace Dining Car, with building supplies and other equipment in the foreground
Have not seen this Hart stereoview of a Pullman Palace Dining Car before. Can anyone say where this Hart view was taken, the date, or identify the structure and construction materials in the foreground?
Pullman Palace Dining Car, with building supplies and other equipment in the
foreground.
Taken on the CP Sacramento
wharf, under construction, June 19, 1869.
Untitled
Alfred A. Hart CPRR strereoview detail from
the
series "Scenes
in
the
Valley
of
the
Sacramento."
Images Courtesy of Alan
Wohlleben.
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 10:35 PM
3 Comments:
From: KyleWyatt@aol.com
... based on Sacramento Union articles, as recorded by Gerald Best in his research notes ...
The first Pullman cars to reach Sacramento arrived June 10, 1869. They were sleeping cars Ogden and Pennsylvania, and dining car International. When they left June 19, Alfred Hart took photos of the cars, per the paper.
We know the dining car in the photos is the International. I suspect the other car in the photos is the Ogden, or maybe the Pennsylvania (this latter is referred to as an older car, so my vote on the photo is for the Ogden).
—Kyle
From: KyleWyatt@aol.com
... Both photos are taken on the CP Sacramento wharf, in ... part under construction. Note also the ... photo ... published by Soule (of Boston) after his California 1869 visit, [which] also shows the wharf under construction.
—Kyle
From: "Larry Hersh" lkh-cprr@pacbell.net
I believe this photo was taken in Sacramento, CA, during the construction of the wooden platform structure over the banks of the "east side" of the Sacramento River.
The view is to the west. I wonder if the "old depot was still in operation during the construction? And, was this area later filled in with fill materials to create a levee? I don't have a date, but there must be others who have more info regarding this type of construction during the period.
—Larry Hersh
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