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). Object Type: painting. Genre: history painting. Date: 1881. Place of creation: United States of America. Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Leland Stanford, Collis Potter Huntington, Charles Crocker, Theodore Judah, Edwin B. Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Aaron A. Sargent, Sidney Dillon, Oakes Ames, Anson P.K. Safford, Benjamin B. Redding, Silas Sanderson, Samuel S. Montague, David Hewes, John S. Casement, Milton Latham, William Tecumseh Sherman, Harvey Willson Harkness, Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman. Collection: California State Railroad Museum. The Last Spike 1869
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