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Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.

Location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads came together in on May 10, 1869.

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).

Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/1980
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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promontory point
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.

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