Hydrohistorian
Colorado snow plow on the Colorado Midland R.R., Hagerman Pass
Library of Congress · 1899 · William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Co.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53298 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights
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Hagerman Pass, on the Continental Divide above the Fryingpan. Everything the plough is throwing was going to be the Colorado River; the pass it is clearing is the divide our transbasin tunnels were later driven under.
Shows: What Colorado's snowpack meant to the people who had to get through it, photographed by William Henry Jackson.
What this does not let you conclude: A measurement of any kind. Nobody was gauging this snow; they were moving it. A photochrom print -- colour laid onto a black-and-white negative by lithographic stones, not a colour photograph.
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- Topic snow · plate
- Division 5 · gallery · our placement, by name and place
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