Golden Spike Celebrations

Items

• Golden Spike Centennial Symposium Program
  Symposium held at the University of Utah on May 6 -7, 1969 in conjunction with the Golden Spike Centennial. This program was donated by Professor David E. Miller, who organized the event
• Corky Lee assembling Chinese Railway Workers Descendants Association for group portrait
  Photographer Corky Lee assembles CRWDA for group photograph in front of the Chinese Arch during the Sesquicentennial events.
• Golden Spike Centennial Program
  Golden Spike Centennial program with double-sided inserts. This program was donated to University of Utah Special Collections by former J. Willard Marrott Library Director Ralph D. Thomson and his wife Ruth Thomson who was a librarian in Salt Lake County schools.
• Golden Spike Monument
  Golden Spike Monument at Promontory Summit, taken July, 1949. Gift of: Bernice Gibbs Anderson.
• Golden Spike Centennial invitation, by Golden Spike Centennial Commission
• National Park Service Golden Spike Centennial
  Brochure on the Golden Spike National Historical Monument created by the National Park Service.
• Golden Spike Centennial Brochure
• Utah Senator Frank E. Moss greeting group at train station
  From the Frank E. Moss Photograph Collection - P0146n11, folder 9, image 2926. Cropped from contact sheet.
• Women at registration table, Union Station, Ogden, Utah
• As One musical performers dancing
• Reenactors after driving the final golden spike, 2019
• Man standing with camera on top of RV in parking lot, Golden Spike Sesquicentennial
• A.A. Hart captures crowd at the driving of Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Utah 1869
  Photo showing the completion of the transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869, at Promontory, Utah.
• A.J. Russell captures crowd at driving of Golden Spike ceremony, Promontory Summit. 1869
  Photo showing the completion of the transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869, at Promontory, Utah.
• Reenactors representing Central Pacific and Union Pacific railway workers carrying rails for ceremony
• Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Transportation, speaking at Sesquicentennial
• Crowd watching Golden Spike Sesquicentennial celebrations on teleprompter
• Corky Lee standing next to plaque honoring Chinese railway workers
• Chinese Railway Workers Descendants Association group portrait being taken by Corky Lee
• Chinese Railway Workers Descendants Association group portrait at Chinese Arch, Promontory Summit, Utah, 2019
• Trestle and pole drivers, Lucin Cutoff, Great Salt Lake
  Photo shows construction work on the Lucin Cutoff (built between February 1902 and March 1904).
• Band at Ogden Union Station, Golden Spike Centennial
  From the Frank E. Moss Photograph Collection - accession P0146n, box 11, folder 9, image 2925. Cropped image from contact sheet.
• Women at ticket table, Golden Spike Centennial
  From the Frank E. Moss Photograph Collection - P1046n11, folder 9, image 2930.
• Crowd in bleachers at Golden Spike Centennial
  From the David E. Miller Photograph Collection (unprocessed) - P1187n11, folder 13, image 33.
• Train engines facing each other and Centennial crowd