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DescriptionDonner Lake and snow sheds2.jpg
"Summit of Sierra Nevada - snow sheds in foreground, Donner Lake in the distance, Central Pacific R.R.", albumen print. This illustration was carried in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographical and geological features, and some account of the resources of the great West; containing thirty photographic views along the line of the Pacific rail road, from Omaha to Sacramento, / F.V. Hayden. New York : Julius Bien, 1870, [plate] XXIX.[1]
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