THREE STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AND ADJACENT AREAS TAKEN

by Carleton E. Watkins In 1873-1874 by Railroads, Union Pacific Railroad

$300 · Offered by L. W. Currey

In the dead of winter 1873-1874 Watkins and his friend the landscape painter William Keith decided to collaborate on views seen along the route of the Central Pacific Railroad ... Proceeding without Keith from Salt Lake City Watkins advanced past Promontory, where the Central Pacific had met the Union Pacific line in 1869, to photograph the desolate track-side sights of Echo Canyon and Weber Canyon ... For the first time, employs two special railroad flatcars to carry his photographic

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