Title

Transcontinental Railroad

Caption

Promontory Point, Utah: May 10, 1869.
Completion of the first transcontinental railroad with the Central Pacific Railroad coming from Sacramento, and the Union Pacific Railroad building out from Chicago. The two railroads started the project six years earlier, in 1863.

Credit line

Photo12/Underwood Archives/UIG

Reference

UMG20A24_138

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,1Mb (7,1Mb) / 16,0in x 11,7in / 4800 x 3502 (300dpi)

Keywords

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