The print reproduces Thomas Hill's painting "Driving the last spike" above a key to seventy-one of the persons represented in the painting; also, a short essay by the historian Richard Dillon
Description:
At foot of sheet: Published by The Nut Tree to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the "Driving of the last spike," Nut Tree, California, 95688.
Publisher:
The Nut Tree
Subject (Geographic):
Utah
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company
The print reproduces Thomas Hill's painting "Driving the last spike" above a key to seventy-one of the persons represented in the painting; also, a short essay by the historian Richard Dillon
Description:
At foot of sheet: Published by The Nut Tree to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the "Driving of the last spike," Nut Tree, California, 95688.
Publisher:
The Nut Tree
Subject (Geographic):
Utah
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company
"8-1-17.", On verso: text; ill.; lists of National Army cantonment camps, National Guard concentration camps, increment camps, reserve officers' training camps, aero training stations, posts and stations of the Army, Naval stations and Marine barracks., Relief shown by hachures., and Shows Union Pacific lines connecting camps.
Publisher:
Poole Bros.,
Subject (Name):
Poole Brothers and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Military training camps--United States--Maps and World War, 1914-1918--United States
Lists general superintendents and general passenger and ticket agents for Union Pacific Railroad Company and Central Pacific Railroad Company., Relief shown by hachures., and Shows Union Pacific-Central Pacific transcontinental railroad, its land grants, other railroads, proposed railroads, and stage routes.
Publisher:
Rand, McNally & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company, Central Pacific Railroad Company--Maps, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Maps
Subject (Topic):
Railroad land grants--West (U.S.)--Maps, Railroads--United States--Maps, and Railroads--West (U.S.)--Maps
Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Nebraska., North Platte River., Salt Lake City (Utah), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Utah., Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber River (Utah), West (U.S.), and Wyoming.
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Hot springs, Landscape photography., and Railroads.
Crofutts trans-continental tourists guide ... over the Union Pacific railroad, Central Pacific
Container / Volume:
5th vol., and 4th annual revise
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
The joining of the First Transcontinental Railroad, likely based on the photograph taken by Andrew J. Russell of the ceremony of the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869.
Description:
Wood engraving signed: Baker
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Guidebooks
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Volume with mounted albumen photographic prints of images created by Andrew J. Russell of locations along the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah and Wyoming, and printed by David H. Prime in New York, 1869, by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Publisher:
Published by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah., West (U.S.), and Wyoming.
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Bridges., Landscape photography., Mormons, Railroads., and Trestles.
The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the front pastedown and versos of almost every photograph, although some versos are blank.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts., Probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut., and Reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated.
Subject (Geographic):
Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Salt Lake City, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Austin, Henry, 1804-1891, Bundy, J. K., C.M. Loomi, J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company, Loomis, C. M. (Clark Merrick), 1829-1890, Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, Wheeler & Wilson Company, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
