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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Alfred Hart

Names:
Other: A.A. Hart 
Other: Alfred A. Hart 
Dates:  1816 - 1908, 3 March
Born:  US, CT, Norwich
Died:  US, CA, Alameda
Active:  US
Gender:  Male
 
  
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.

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"The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist" by Mead B. Kibbey (1995) California State Library Foundation 
http://CPRR.org ... 
This book has been out of print for sometime but there is a complete online copy on the website of the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum (www.cprr.org) 
  
Alfred Hart - Stereograph catalog 
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Catalogue of his photographs with their distance in miles along the railroad from Sacramento. Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum (www.cprr.org) 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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