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The first greeting of the iron horse. Promontory Point, May 9th, 1869, 354

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Title: The first greeting of the iron horse. Promontory Point, May 9th, 1869, 354
Creator: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
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: Yellow mount, yellow back.
Shows locomotive Jupiter (?) and tender car; railroad signal; Union Pacific locomotive in background. "Scenes near Great Salt Lake, photographed and published by Alfred A. Hart" -- verso. "Central Pacific Railroad, Utah" -- front.
Stereo-6018.
Mead Kibbey;
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : stereograph ; 3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001609870CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Railroads--Utah--Promontory Point (Cape)
Railroad locomotives--Utah--Promontory Point (Cape)
Railroad employees
Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: Utah
Promontory Point (Cape)
Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)

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