Pine Bluffs WY Wyoming Union Pacific Railroad UPRR 1866 John Carbutt Stereoview

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Pine Bluffs WY Wyoming Union Pacific Railroad UPRR 1866 John Carbutt Stereoview:
$95.00

1866 stereoview photo of a large group of journalists posing on a rocky hill near the Union Pacific Railroad line in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. No photographer backmark but this image was taken by John Carbutt.

Carbutt was the official photographer for a Union Pacific Railroad promotional junket west of the 100th meridian in the fall of 1866. On October 17 he and his assistant, Thomas Hine, left Chicago with a special train carrying a large party of railroad executives and dignitaries. Carbutt took views of the railroad construction and new towns as well as Indian camps along the route, and he fulfilled a steady barrage of requests from members of the party to have their portraits taken with the Western scenery as a backdrop. After returning from this excursion, Carbutt issued the stereographic series, \"Union Pacific Railroad Excursion to the 100th Meridian, Oct. 1866\" (from \"Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865\" by Peter E. Palmquist & Thomas R. Kailbourn).

* CONDITION: Very Good-

* SIZE: Measures approximately 3 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches.