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Title: "Driving of the Golden Spike"
Creator: Unknown
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: Painting of crowd gathered for Transcontinental Railroad Golden Spike completion ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah. Native Americans are visible in the crowd. Governor Leland Stanford, in the center, stands ready to drive the Golden Spike.
Type: image
Identifier: 363AFA9D-7116-42C9-9E5B-678043532678
1999/058/026
Subject: Men
Women
Stanford, Leland

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