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Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist by Mead B. Kibbey Hard Cover
Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist by Mead B. Kibbey
The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist
Mead B. Kibbey
Hard Cover
238 pages
Copyright 1996
Contents
Editor's Forwardix
Author's Prefacexi
Introduction and Brief History of the Construction
of the Central Pacific Railroad15
Starting The Railroad18
Judah's Death at 3722
CPRR Tunneling Methods25
Nitroglycerin Adventures28
Building the World's Longest Barn33
Racing to Utah35
Crocker's Bet to Lay Ten Miles in One Day
36
A Day of National Rejoicing39
The Problem of Local Time43
Photographing at Promontory44
Notes on railroad books and appendixes45
Alfred Hart: Photographer, Author and Publisher 51
Dating Hart's RR Construction Stereos54
Dating Stereos with Tax Stamps60
Dates the CPRR reached various points62
The Fate of Hart's CPRR Negatives69
Hart's years after 186973
Hart's Photographic and Production Methods79
Methods in the Field79
Light Sensitive Materials80
The Wet Collodion Process81
Necessary Ingredients82
Preparing The Plates for Exposure84
Developing and Fixing the Negative85
Hart's Camera and Equipment89
Shutters95
Stereograph Production96
Making Stereo Prints96
Sensitizing the Paper and
Printing the Negative99
Masking100
Toning, and Fixing the Prints102
Transposing103
Title Strips104
Viewing Stereographs105
Looking for the Photographer109
Hart's Non-Railroad Photographs111 Appendixes:
A Reproductions of Hart's CPRR Stereo Views 113
BNumerical List of Hart's CPRR Stereo Views 153
C Geographical List of Hart's CPRR Stereos167
DPublic Sources of Hart's CPRR Stereo Views 177
E Glenn Willumson's Article on Hart187
F Transposing and some Stereo-Camera Details 203
GReplicas of some pages of Hart's Travel Book 213
Reading List and Short Bibliography231
Index233
List of Illustrations238
Although The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist contains a great deal about railroading, this is far from a typical "train" book. Instead the author has chosen to focus on the events and circumstances of railroading that are often over-looked or only briefly discussed. Among these are the vicissitudes of tunneling--with both nitroglycerin and black-powder techniques--in the brutally dense granite of the rugged California mountains. He has also addressed the question of how the workers were able to keep tunnels on a perfectly straight course while working from both sides of a mountain.
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