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| 1869 | North America - USA A.J. Russell, 1864-1869, East and West shaking hands at laying last rail, [Photographs taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad], Albumen print, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, | The golden spike is driven at Promontory Point, Utah Territory, linking the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads. This completes the construction of the first Transcontinental railway in North America and the ceremony is photographed by Andrew J. Russell , Alfred Hart and Charles Roscoe Savage. |