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Andrew J. Russell — Trestle Work, Promontroy Point, Salt Lake Valley

Andrew J. Russell

Trestle Work, Promontroy Point, Salt Lake Valley

1868

Russell's engineering marvel captures the wooden trestle construction at Promontory Point, site of the famous golden spike ceremony that completed America's first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

Medium
Albumen print, pl. XXVIII from the album "Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)

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Andrew J. Russell, Trestle Work, Promontroy Point, Salt Lake Valley, 1868

Russell's engineering marvel captures the wooden trestle construction at Promontory Point, site of the famous golden spike ceremony that completed America's first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

Medium
Albumen print, pl. XXVIII from the album "Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)
Year
1868
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Nineteenth Century, Industrial, Albumen Print, Documentary, American, Landscape, Historical, Majestic, Architecture, Sepia Tones

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