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Title: Last Act, 690 Miles from Sacramento
Creator: Hart, Alfred
Date Created and/or Issued: 1869/05/10
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: Copy print of the special trains of both the Central Pacific and Union Pacific as they met at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869 to view the driving of the last spike connecting the two lines. This image is from the opposite side of the railcars where the ceremony was taking place. Leland Stanford's train is on the right pulled by the locomotive, "Jupiter" From an Alfred Hart stereo card.
Type: Image
Identifier: 66955108-33E3-49AA-9C40-945074402100
1998/722/0711
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad

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