 
<dl><dt>File name</dt>
<dd>10_08_000107</dd>
<dt>Title</dt>
<dd>Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass, in the Sierra Nevadas, California, 1700 miles west of Missouri River.</dd></dl><ol><li>Creator/Contributor: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 (photographer)</li>
<li>Date issued: 1869 (approximate)</li>
<li>Date created: 1868 (approximate)</li></ol><hr><div style="clear:both;"></div>
<dl><dt>Image Description</dt>
<dd>Image No. 107 - circa 1869.</dd></dl><ul><li>View west of the southwestern <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Joaquin_Valley" title="Category:San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a></b>, with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tehachapi_Mountains" title="Category:Tehachapi Mountains">Tehachapi Mountains</a> (left-southeast) and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Emigdio_Mountains" title="Category:San Emigdio Mountains">San Emigdio Mountains</a> (right-northwest), and <i>Canada de las Uvas</i> in the backround.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejon_Pass" class="extiw" title="w:Tejon Pass">Tejon Pass</a> 'trail-wagon road' went from the valley floor up the <i>Canada de las Uvas</i> towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Tejon" class="extiw" title="w:Fort Tejon">Fort Tejon</a>, Los Angeles, and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Southern_California" title="Category:Southern California">Southern California</a>.</li>
<li><i>Canada de las Uvas</i> (canyon of the grapes), present day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine,_California" class="extiw" title="en:Grapevine, California">Grapevine Canyon</a>, was named after native grapevines (<i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vitis_californica" title="Category:Vitis californica">Vitis californica</a></i>) growing at canyon's many springs.</li></ul><div style="clear:both;"></div>
<hr><dl><dt>Physical description</dt>
<dd></dd></dl><ol><li>1 photographic print : albumen ; image 15 x 20.3 cm.</li>
<li>Genre: Albumen prints; Portrait photographs</li>
<li>Subjects: San Joaquin Valley; Tehachapi Mountains; Tejon Pass, San Emigdio Mountains; Ranches; Southern California; California</li></ol><dl><dt>Notes</dt>
<dd></dd></dl><ol><li>On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad" class="extiw" title="w:Union Pacific Railroad">Union Pacific Railway Company</a>, Eastern Division's name - to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.</li>
<li>Although all of the photographs published in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Across_the_Continent_on_the_Kansas_Pacific_Railway_(Route_of_the_35th_Parallel)" title="Category:Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway (Route of the 35th Parallel)">Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad (Route of the 35th Parallel)</a> are attributed to Gardner, some of the images may have been taken by one of the other photographers Gardner supervised on the expedition.<br></li></ol><dl><dd><dl><dd>"As official photographer for the expedition, Gardner was allowed to published all the expedition photographs under his name.  In 1867 he stated in a deposition that although a photograph was identified on the mount as a 'Photograph by A. Gardner,' it simply meant that it was printed or copied in his gallery; he was not necessarily the photographer.  The other photographers on the expedition were Dr. William A. Bell, William R. Pywell, and Gardner's son, Lawrence, who apprenticed on the expedition."<br><dl><dd><i>[Katz, D. Mark (1991). Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill. Page 220]</i>.</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl><ol><li>Images most likely published in 1869.</li></ol><dl><dd><dl><dd>"Along with images made by photographers under his [Alexander Gardner's] supervision, his photographs were published in an album titled Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railyway (Route of the 35th Parallel), offered for sale on April, 1869."
<dl><dd><i>[Marien, Mary Warner (2006). Photography: a cultural history. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Page 132].</i></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl><dl><dt>Item/Page/Plate</dt>
<dd>No. 107</dd></dl><dl><dt>Source</dt>
<dd><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Across_the_Continent_on_the_Kansas_Pacific_Railway_(Route_of_the_35th_Parallel)" title="Category:Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway (Route of the 35th Parallel)">Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel</a> / Alex. Gardner, photographer.</dd></dl><dl><dt>Location</dt>
<dd><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Boston_Public_Library" title="Category:Boston Public Library">Boston Public Library</a>, Print Department</dd></dl><dl><dt>Rights</dt>
<dd>No known restrictions.</dd></dl><dl><dt>Flickr</dt>
<dd>Data on 2011-08-10:</dd></dl><ul><li><i>Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m</i></li>
<li><i>Tags: Kansas Pacific Railway</i></li>
<li><i>License: CC BY 2.0</i></li>
<li><i>User: Boston Public Library BPL</i></li></ul>
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 (photographer)
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