The Snapshots in Time Collection

Vintage Stereoview Photographs: Central Pacific Railroad Bridge and Passenger Depot, Sacramento, California

Vintage Stereoview Photographs: Central Pacific Railroad Bridge and Passenger Depot, Sacramento, California

These two late 19th-century photographs document Central Pacific Railroad infrastructure in Sacramento, California: a wooden and iron truss railroad bridge and the ornate Passenger Depot train shed. Produced in the decades following completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, such images were popular as commercial stereoviews and souvenir photographs, capturing the rapid growth of California's rail network in the post-Civil War era. Project: 218388