Alfred A. Hart

Alfred A. Hart
Born 1816
Norwich, Connecticut
Died 1908 (aged 92)
San Leandro, California
Nationality American
Known for photography
Notable work stereoscopic photographs of the Transcontinental Railroad

Alfred A. Hart (1816–1908) was a 19th-century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s. Hart sold his negatives to Carleton Watkins, who continued to publish the CPRR stereoviews in the 1870s.

Alfred Hart's photograph #336 of Palisades (Ten Mile) Canyon and the Humboldt River, during construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

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