The_Last_Spike_1869.jpg
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Summary
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Thomas Hill : The Last Spike | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
The Last Spike
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | history painting | ||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
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
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Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of creation | United States of America | ||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Here | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional,
public domain
work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "
faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain
".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
Original upload log
The original description page was
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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