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
Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress tes...
Description:
Title from cover.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., West (U.S.), Coalville (Utah), Echo (Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Russell, Andrew J., Williams, George Walton, 1820-1903., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Central Pacific Railroad Company, Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Advertising, Agriculture, Fertilizer industry, and Railroads
Photographic prints of images created by Andrew Joseph Russell of locations in Utah, Wyoming, California, and Nebraska, ca. 1867-1869. The bound album contains the same images represented in the loose photographic prints. the loose photographic print...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Salt Lake City., West (U.S.), Bear River (Utah-Idaho), Buford (Wyo.), California, Coalville (Utah), Dale Creek (Colo. and Wyo.), Donner Lake (Calif.), Dutch Flat (Calif.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Grizzly Peak (Wyo.), Henefer (Utah), Laramie Basin (Wyo.), Laramie Mountains (Colo. and Wyo.), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Nebraska, North Platte River, One Thousand Mile Tree (Utah : Tree), Parley Canyon (Utah), Platte River (Neb.), Promontory (Utah), Salt Lake City (Utah), Sherman (Wyo.), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Temple Street (Salt Lake City, Utah), Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber River (Utah), Weber River Valley (Utah), White Pine Canyon (Summit County, Utah), Wilhelmina Pass (Utah), Witch Rocks (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Russell, Andrew J., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Theatre, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Bridges, Wooden, Hot springs, and Railroads
Photographic prints of images created by Andrew Joseph Russell of locations in Utah, Wyoming, California, and Nebraska, ca. 1867-1869. The bound album contains the same images represented in the loose photographic prints. the loose photographic print...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Salt Lake City., West (U.S.), Bear River (Utah-Idaho), Buford (Wyo.), California, Coalville (Utah), Dale Creek (Colo. and Wyo.), Donner Lake (Calif.), Dutch Flat (Calif.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Grizzly Peak (Wyo.), Henefer (Utah), Laramie Basin (Wyo.), Laramie Mountains (Colo. and Wyo.), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Nebraska, North Platte River, One Thousand Mile Tree (Utah : Tree), Parley Canyon (Utah), Platte River (Neb.), Promontory (Utah), Salt Lake City (Utah), Sherman (Wyo.), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Temple Street (Salt Lake City, Utah), Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber River (Utah), Weber River Valley (Utah), White Pine Canyon (Summit County, Utah), Wilhelmina Pass (Utah), Witch Rocks (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Russell, Andrew J., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Theatre, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Bridges, Wooden, Hot springs, 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
Viewbook 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 Com...
Description:
The front and back boards of the book are both imprinted with the shortened title of the book, "Union Pacific Railroad. Photographical Illustrations."
Publisher:
printed by David H. Prime by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Geographic):
Bear River (Utah-Idaho), Bear River City (Utah), City Creek (Salt Lake County, Utah), Coalville (Utah), Dale Creek (Colo. and Wyo.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Fort Sanders (Wyo.), Great Salt Lake Valley (Utah), Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Laramie Basin (Wyo.), Laramie Mountains (Wyo. and Colo.), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Little Laramie River (Wyo.), Parley Canyon (Utah), Utah, Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber Canyon (Utah), Weber River (Utah), Weber River Valley (Utah), West (U.S.), Wilhelmina Pass (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Sidney, 1812-1892, Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 (Ulysses Simpson),, Prime, David H., printer., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 (William Tecumseh),, Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Laramie Hotel (Laramie, Wyoming), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), Union Pacific Railroad Company., and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Photograph album containing 26 views of the West and the Union Pacific Railroad, probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut. The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the fron...
Description:
The photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Austin, Henry, 1804-1891., Bundy, J. K., Loomis, C. M. 1829-1890. (Clark Merrick),, C.M. Loomis, Sons (New Haven, Conn.), J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company., Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Wheeler & Wilson Company.
Print depicts the town of Sherman, Wyoming, at the summit of the original grade of the Union Pacific Railroad, at an elevation of 8,247 ft (2,514 m); shows the town's two hotels, Sherman House and Summit House, train engine and flat cars, other buildi...
Description:
BEIN BrSides4o Zc47 869un: On sheet 13.0 x 28.5 cm.
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Subject (Geographic):
Sherman (Albany County, Wyo. : Ghost town), Albany County (Wyo.), United States, and Overland Trails
Bound volume of mounted photographs by Andrew J. Russell that document the landscape views and buildings along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah, ca. 1867-1869. Many images of landscapes include men and women posited in the te...
Description:
Title from cover.
Publisher:
A. Mudge & Son Print
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Fort Sanders (Wyo.), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Sidney, 1812-1892, Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 (Ulysses Simpson),, Russell, Andrew J., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 (William Tecumseh),, Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Published / Created:
1863 October
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1811 Un3751
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Holograph document signed on Executive Mansion letterhead in which Lincoln appoints Timothy J. Carter as a director to represent the interests of the United States on the board of the Union and Pacific Railroad Company. Lincoln cites the "Act to aid i...
Description:
Manuscript, signed.
Subject (Name):
Carter, Timothy J. fl. 1863. and Union Pacific Railroad Company