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Thomas Hill: The Last Spike  wikidata:Q20743165 reasonator:Q20743165
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Thomas Hill (1829–1908)
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The Last Spike
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Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
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English: The painting depicts the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT, on May 10, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. It is worth noting that some of the people depicted in the painting were not at the Gold Spike ceremony (e.g., Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, Edwin B. Crocker, Theodore Judah and Mark Hopkins). Only two of the members of the Central Pacific board of directors were present: Leland Stanford and Charles Marsh (who are depicted in the painting).
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Date 1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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  • 2008-11-29 21:42 Centpacrr 1043×637× (283682 bytes) "The Last Spike" by Thomas Hill (1881) depicting the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT, on May 19, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. This is an image of a painting b

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