Image / The last rail. The invocation, fixing the wire, May 10th, 1869

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Title: The last rail. The invocation, fixing the wire, May 10th, 1869
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
Contributor: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1869
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Attributed to Hart, negatives purchased from Hart by C.E. Watkins.
Orange mount, pink back.
Stereo-5767.
Mead Kibbey;
Shows ceremony at Promontory Point, completion of railroad. On right, Amos L. Bowsher, General Foreman of Telegraph Construction, standing on ladder connecting wire to gold spike and Stanford's hammer.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001605292CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Bowsher, A. L.. (Amos L.)--Photographs
Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroads--Utah--Promontory Point (Cape)
Telegraph--Utah--Promontory Point (Cape)
Railroad locomotives--Utah--Promontory Point (Cape)
Railroad construction workers
Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: Utah
Promontory Point (Cape)
Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)

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