Bitter Creek Valley, Wyoming

by A. J. Russell, photog

$2,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

1869. Original albumen print, 8.2” x 11.2”, mounted on modern paper. CONDITION: Very good, strong tonality, a few tiny stains to the upper portion of the image. A rare and evocative photo juxtaposing gritty laborers in the foreground with the transcontinental railroad in the distance at Bitter Creek Valley, Wyoming.This captivating image shows five railroad construction workers or possibly miners beside a wheelbarrow loaded

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