Summit of Sierra Nevada - snow sheds in foreground, Donner Lake in the distance, Central Pacific R.R.

Photograph shows snow sheds over railroad tracks between tunnels in the Sierra Nevada, with Donner Lake in the distance.

Illus. 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.