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Photograph of meeting of last sections of transcontinental railway builders "The Last Spike" at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869 photograph by A.J. Russell at California State Railroad Museum.
| Color lithograph of "The Completion of the Pacific Rail Road" after photo by A.J. Russell at California State Railroad Museum.
| Painting (1881) of "The Last Spike" by Thomas Hill which added railway executives who had not actually been at the completion ceremonies at California State Railroad Museum.
| Detail Thomas Hill's "The Last Spike" showing Leland Stanford with hammer & golden spike at California State Railroad Museum.
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Idealized "The Last Spike" lithograph at California State Railroad Museum.
| When the Last Spike was cast in gold, a copy was made which now rests at California State Railroad Museum while the one used in the ceremony is in possession of Stanford University.
| Second gold copy of Last Spike engraved with the names of California Pacific Railroad directors & executives at California State Railroad Museum.
| Lithograph of earliest days of railroading on Sacramento Valley Railroad steam locomotive rolling past farm at California State Railroad Museum.
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State of California Pacific Rail Road Bond certificate (1863) at California State Railroad Museum.
| Union Pacific Railway Company engraved invitation to opening of first track section west from Missouri River at California State Railroad Museum.
| Solar compass used for railroad surveying work at California State Railroad Museum.
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