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    Note: While mostly-obsolete, the original negative has a small amount of content on the left-hand side that appears to have been left out of all prints of the photograph I can find floating around. This gives this image some value, and it should definitely not be deleted.

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    English: "227 (plate number) East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail."   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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    Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902)  wikidata:Q4757433
     
    Andrew J. Russell
    Alternative names
    Andrew Joseph Russell; A. J. Russell; Capt. A. J. Russel
    Description American photographer
    Date of birth/death 20 March 1829 Edit this at Wikidata 22 September 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Walpole Edit this at Wikidata Brooklyn Edit this at Wikidata
    Work period 1862-1902
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    creator QS:P170,Q4757433
    Title
    English: "227 (plate number) East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail."
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    English: *The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. At center left, Samuel S. Montague, Central Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right).
    • The original glass negative is in the archives of the American Geographical Society of New York (the white streaks radiating from the extreme right of the photograph represent pressure cracks in the wet plate itself).
    Español: *Fotografía que muestra el momento de unión de las dos líneas del primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos que tuvo lugar el 10 de mayo de 1869 en Promontory, Estado de Utah. En el centro se puede ver como se estrechan la mano los representantes de las dos compañías constructoras y rivales: Samuel S. Montague (izquierda) por la Central Pacific, y Grenville M. Dodge (derecha), de la Union Pacific.
    Date 10 May 1869
    date QS:P571,+1869-05-10T00:00:00Z/11
    Notes Cropped and gamma corrected, temporary file for FPC.
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    This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 594940.

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