Governor Leland Stanford (center, right, holding hammer on shoulder) at the last spike ceremony

1869-05-10

AAZ-1805

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

English

SFP 131. Folder: CA. Transportation. Railroads. Transcontinental. Last Spike

Newscopy: Scene of Driving of the Last Spike at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869, linking the Central Pacific (Now Southern Pacific) and Union Pacific in the first transcontinental railroad. Governor Leland Stanford of California is the man at right of center group with the hammer on his shoulder. Chief Engineer J. H. Strowbridge is in the center with a shovel in front of him. On the left of Mr. Strowbridge is Mrs. Strowbridge and on the right Mrs. Mary Ryan who were the only two white women at the ceremony.

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SFP 131

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