Image / [Ceremony to drive the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869]

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Title: [Ceremony to drive the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869]
Creator: Hill, Thomas (1829-1908), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1869]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Reproduction of painting showing ceremony which took place on May 10, 1869 celebrating completion of transcontinental railroad (Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads).
Supplied title. Printed (LR, within image): T. Hill.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 48.6 x 70.6 cm., image on sheet 63.8 x 84.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8199p4zc
BANC PIC 1963.002:1804--E
Subject: Events
Railroads
Utah

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