File:Tejon Pass, 1868.jpg

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English: Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass in Sierra Nevada, California, 1690 miles west of Missouri River.
Image Description
The Canada de las Uvas, or 'Canyon of the Grapes' - named after the canyon's native grapevines (Vitus californica).
Gardner Series
This is plate 106 - in a series of views by Alexander Gardner made in 1867 and 1868 starting in St. Louis, Missouri through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to San Francisco, California.
  • Series made for the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division later renamed the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Gardner accompanied the survey party seeking the best southern route for the railroad going through Kansas along the old Santa Fe Trail south to Albuquerque, then west along the 35th parallel to the Tehachapi Pass before heading north to San Francisco.
  • The series is significant as the earliest comprehensive U.S. western landscape survey. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, soldiers, Native Americans, other people, forts, vegetation, geological formations, rivers, plains, mountain ranges, and railroad construction.
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 15 x 20.3 cm. on 30.3 x 45.7 cm. mount
Date circa 1868
date QS:P,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University [1]
Author Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882


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