Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of Monument Point, showing the Southern Pacific Railroad train that transported Governor Stanford to Promentory, Utah for the driving of the gold spike, May 10, 1869. A caravan of four covered wagons moves out across the plain to meet the locomotive train that is coming from behind the hill at right. A man stands on the tracks at center. A large mesa can be seen behind him.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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