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The Last Spike

1869
19th C.
North America, U.S.A.
7/16 x 5 9/16 x 1/2 in. (1.11 x 14.13 x 1.27 cm)

By (primary)
William T. Garrett Foundry American, active 19th century
Cast by
William T. Garrett Foundry American, active 19th century

Object Type: Stanford University Document

Medium: Gold, alloyed with copper

Credit Line: Gift of David Hewes

Accession Number: 1998.115

Currently On View: 122 Stanford Family : Railroad

Provenance

David Hewes (1882-1915) [Husband to Anna Maria Lathrop, Jane Stanford's sister; SF builder and financier]; assigned accession number in 1998

Bibliography

Robert M. Utley and Francis A. Ketterson, Jr. Golden Spike, National Park Service #40, Washington, DC 1969.
Carol Osborne with P. Turner, Anita V. Mozley, and Mary Lou Z. Munn, Museum Builders in the West: The Stanfords as Collectors and Patrons of Art 1870–1906, (Stanford University, 1986) p. 63.
Timeline, (Ohio Historical Society, March-April, 2001) (repr.).
Margo Lundell, Discovering the Spirit of America: A Railroad and a Golden Spike, (Frederic Thomas Inc., Naples, FL, 2004), p. 2 (repr.).
Jennifer L. Roberts, Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History, (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004), p. 115, no. 63 (repr.).
R. Conrad Stein, The Industrial Revolution: Manufacturing a better America, (Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2006). Pg. 9.
Pansylea Howard Willburn, “Celebrating the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad: San Francisco Silversmiths, 1869” in “Silver Magazine” (Page/Frederiksen Publshing Company, March/April 2010). Figure 2, pg. 23, repr.
Included in the Google Art Project website starting on 4/3/2013.
Richard Kurin, "The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects" (Penguin Group, New York, 2013). Pg. 170. repr.
William Durbin, "Until the Last Spike: The Journal of Sean Sullivan, A Transcontinental Railroad Worker" (Scholastic Inc., 2014 edition). Pg. 180, repr.
"Finished Working On The Railroad" (HistoryNet, June 2019). Pg. 44, repr.
"A Gallery Guide to the Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford. A Mark Dion Project. A Mark Dion Project" Susan Dackerman and Paula Findlen ed. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, 2019). Pg. 16, repr.
Manel Lucas, “Raïls A La Praderia” in “El Món D’ahir: História D’Autor 17” Pere Farré, Laura Gas, Manel Lucas ed. (Ara Llibres, Barcelona, 2020). Pg. 122-123, repr.

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