Names: | Other: A.A. Hart Other: Alfred A. Hart
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| Dates: | 1816 - 1908, 3 March | Born: | US, CT, Norwich | Died: | US, CA, Alameda | Active: | US |
He photographed on the Central Pacific Railroad and was one of the photographers who recorded the joining of the rails at Promontory, Utah in 1869. His negatives were later purchased by Carleton E. Watkins who sold them under his own imprint. The original negatives were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Stereographs project Business locations Sacramento, CA, US [6] *"Photographed and Published by...";
"Artist"; "Photographer"; "Official Photographer
for the C.P.R.R."; "Golden State Photographic
Gallery"; No. 65 J St.; 135 J. St.; issued
several fine series: "Central Pacific R.R.,
California"; "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains"; "Scenes Near Great Salt Lake";
"Scenes in the Washoe Range"; "Scenes on the
Humboldt River"; "Scenes in the Valley of the
Sacramento"; ~370 views of the construction and
along the route of the Central Pacific R.R.,
65-66, appears to have made 32 negs during early
fall of 65, pub. by Whitney & Paradise in NY;
R.R. views bought by Watkins, 69; continued
photog. CPRR until it joined the Union Pacific
at Promontory Point on 5/10/69. Little known
about his personal life; B. CT 3/28/16; seems to
have been trained as a painter, but became
involved in selling photographic supplies in
Cleveland during the early 60's before becoming
photog.; was an itinerant photog. by 63; by
65-66, was at work photog. the R.R. D. 08 T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association)
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