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Description
STEREO-1987 STEREO COLLECTION: RAILROADS: C.P.R.R.: WATKINS: # 355. Photographer's no. 355. Orange mount; pink verso. 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. Originally photographed and published by A.A. Hart; reissued by Watkins.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier
(C)001389525CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-2839
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 Stereographs Photographic prints
Place
Utah Promontory Point (Cape) Promontory Point (Utah : Cape)
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