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On May 10th, 1869, the final spike in the United States’ first transcontinental railroad was driven into place in Promontory, Utah. The occasion is memorialized in the iconic photograph “East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail” by Andrew J. Russell, which features a crowd of laborers from the Central Pacific Railroad (built

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