Alfred A. Hart

Photographer, Visual Artist

1816 – 1908

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Who was Alfred A. Hart?

Alfred A. Hart was a 19th-century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s. Hart sold his negatives to Carleton Watkins, who continued to publish the CPRR stereoviews in the 1870s.

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Born
1816
Norwich
Also known as
  • Alfred Hart
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
1908

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on July 23, 2013

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