These enhancement materials go with Rendezvous at Promontory: A New Look at the Golden Spike Ceremony lesson plan, and the Utah Historical Quarterly article, "Rendezvous at Promontory: A New Look at the Golden Spike Ceremony", by Michael W. Johnson, Winter 2004, Volume 72, Number 1.
Utah Historical Quarterly can be purchased by contacting Craig Fuller.
All enhancement materials from the collections of the Utah State Historical Society, unless otherwise noted.
Activity One
Native American and the Railroad, 1868
Activity Two
Amazing Railroad Construction Photographs
Inside a Central Pacific Tunnel
Long Ravine Bridge
Central Pacific Howe Truss Bridge
Central Pacific's Bloomer Cut
Cape Horn (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
View of Cape Horn from above Long Ravine (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
First Bridge Built by Union Pacific
Biggest Bridge of Union Pacific
The Great Cut
1000 Mile Tree
Weber Canyon Bridge and Tunnel #3
Weber Canyon Tunnel #2
Promontory Trestle
Devil's Gate Bridge
Golden Spike Excursion Train
Transcontinental Railroad Map
Lincoln's First Meeting with Dodge, 1859
U.S. Army
Union Pacific Railroad Survey Crew
Grenville Dodge
Thomas (Doc) Durant (link to Coxrail website)
Oakes Ames (link to Coxrail website)
Oliver Ames (link to Coxrail website)
Peter A. Dey (link to University of Iowa Libraries website)
Brigham Young
Mormon Workers, Uintah Mountains
Mormon Workers, The Narrows, Weber Canyon
Mormon Workers, Weber Canyon
Mormon Workers, Echo
Mormon Workers, Camp life in Uintah Mountains
Samuel B. Reed
John (Jack) Casement
John (Jack) Casement (link to Coxrail website)
Dan Casement
William B. Ogden (link to Encyclopedia of Chicago website)
John A. Dix (link to Mr. Lincoln's White House website)
Irish and Other Workers
Irish Track Layers
Workers Camping
Workers in Tunnel
Union Pacific Workers in Echo Canyon
Union Pacific Workers
Workers Singing Group
Camp in Wyoming
Graders Cabins
Union Pacific Construction Camp
Boarding Train or Construction Train
Wagon Train with Supplies
Group of Engineers, Echo Canyon
Engineers Camping, Weber Canyon
Sketch of Dodge's Engineering Camp
Sketch of Dodge's Engineering Camp 2
Theodore Judah (link to Sacramento History website)
Anna Ferona Judah
Leland Stanford
Collis P. Huntington
Charles Crocker
Mark Hopkins (link to San Francisco Museum website)
James Harvey Strobridge
Chinese Workers
Chinese Workers, curving iron rail
Chinese Workers, tea carrier
Chinese Workers at Heath's Ravine
Chinese Workers at Dixie Cut
Chinese Workers, laborers
Chinese Workers at Horse Ravine
Chinese Workers at Summit Tunnel
Chinese Workers at Sailor's Spur
Samuel Skerry Montague (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Lewis M. Clement (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman
Activity Three
Photographers of the Transcontinental Railroad
Camera and Photographer
Charles R. Savage
Alfred A. Hart (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Golden Spike Ceremony Photographs
Gap Between Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rails (link to National Park Service website)
Morning of May 10, 1869
Assembling to Lay the Last Rail
Assembling to Lay the Last Rail
Assembling to Lay the Last Rail
During the Ceremony
Laying of the Last Rail
Shaking Hands at Promontory
Celebration at Promontory
Railroad Officials and Wives
Union Pacific Directors in Private Railroad Car
Union Pacific Officials at Promontory
Activity Four
Hewes Ceremonial Golden Spike with Gold Nugget Attached
(link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Inscriptions on the Golden Last Spike *note date of May 8, 1869, the original date set for the ceremony (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Hewes Gold Spike
Activity Five
Early Central Pacific Passenger Car
Union Pacific Pullman Car Interior
Union Pacific Railroad Pass
Union Pacific Promotion Poster
Telegraph and Railroad
Where Are They Now?
Undriving of the Golden Spike Ceremony
Undriven Golden Spike
Dignitaries, Guests, and Mrs. Mary Ipsen
Short Stories About the Transcontinental Railroad
10 Miles of Track, Laid in One Day Sign
Snowsheds
Utah's Commemorative Quarter