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RSS FeedsNew travelling exhibition to recognize anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad
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18 july 2018 07:16:04

 
New travelling exhibition to recognize anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad
(Artdaily.org)
 


Union Pacific, in partnership with Joslyn Art Museum and the Union Pacific Museum in Council Bluffs, Iowa, announces a new travelling exhibition in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West celebrates the “Meeting of the Rails” at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, through the photographs and stereographs of Andrew Joseph Russell (1830 – 1902) and Alfred A. Hart (1816 – 1908). Drawn exclusively from the Union Pacific Historic Collection, located at the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, these images represent the largest collection in the world of original photographs documenting the construction of the transcontinental railroad between 1866 and 1869. Appropriately, this transformative endeavor was captured by the equally groundbreaking


 
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