[Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869] / [Rock Cut, Green River, Wyoming]

[Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869] / [Rock Cut, Green River, Wyoming]

Photograph

C. R. Savage

Maker
American, b. England, 1832–1909

[Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869] / [Rock Cut, Green River, Wyoming]

1869
Albumen silver prints
Image (a, top): 2 3/16 × 3 11/16 in. (5.6 × 9.4 cm)
Image (b, bottom): 2 3/16 × 3 3/4 in. (5.5 × 9.5 cm)
Mount: 9 × 6 9/16 in. (22.8 × 16.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1983.0729.0001
Inscriptions Printed on applied label on mount recto, LC: May 10, 1869. Promontory. \ Two queer little locomotives \ with shiny brass glinting in the \ Utah sun.-Around them a \ crowd-personages and labor- \ ers, bearded men for the most \ part, for beards were the style \ then. Witnesses of the driving \ of the Golden Spike, marking \ the completion of the first trans- \ continental railroad-Southern \ Pacific's OVERLAND ROUTE \ of today.
Inscribed in ink on mount recto, TC: Connecting Union Pacific \ and Central Pacific Railroads \ Promontory Point Utah \ May 10. 1869
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in ink on mount recto, RC: Rare [underlined] \ original \ C.R. Savage \ salt Lake \ Photo [underlined] \ Boyer
Inscribed in ink on mount recto, BC: Rock Cut \ Green River Wyoming \ 1869
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in ink on mount recto, BRC: B- \ Ware \ Mass \ 10-1946 \ 1 [circled] EV
Inscribed in ink on mount verso: Union Pacific RR
Letterpressed with image of a bee hive on mount verso: C. R. SAVAGE, \ Late Savage & Ottinfer,) \ Pioneer Art Gallery, East Temple Street, \ SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. \ PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. VIEWS OF EVERY POINT OF [covered by mounting]

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