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Utah State Historical Society
Photos of Chinese Laborers

Photo curtesy of Utah State Historical Society.

Central Pacific Railroad construction
#00527-P.9
Chinese laborers with one-horse dump carts building a grade for
the Central Pacific at Prospect Hill, cut 75 miles from Sacramento where construction started.
Hart photo x167.

Central Pacific Railroad construction
#385/oo526
Central Pacific Railroad construction, p.8 - Mountain construction by Chinese laborers making the fill over the canyon at Heath's Ravine in the High Sierra. SF photo x829. By official C.P. photographer Alfred A. Hart of Sacramento.
4x5 neg available.

Central Pacific Railroad construction
#00528 P.10
Chinese workers with picks and shovels, chisels and hammers, one-horse dump carts and black powder carved their way through and over the granite reaches of the Sierra, forging a trail for the rails of the pioneer Central Pacfiic, a parent of Southern Pacific. This photo shows the Chinese building a bank and cut at Sailors spur, about 80 miles from the Central Pacific terminus at Sacramento. Gift of Southern Pacific. photo x-175.