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Reporting the big event--the East and West have been joined...
Reporting the big event--the East and West have been joined...
Item # 701296
May 11, 1869
NEW YORK TIMES, May 11, 1869 The front page begins with over three columns taken up with this historic reporting of the completion of the transcontinental railroad which officially happened the day before, with the top of the first column heads: "EAST AND WEST" "Completion of the Great Line Spanning the Continent" "The Closing Work and Ceremonies at Promontory Summit" "The News Flashed by Telegraph Simultaneously Over the Country" and more.
The article begins: "The long-looked-for moment has arrived, the construction of the Pacific Railroad is un fait accmpli. The inhabitants of the Atlantic seaboard and the dwellers on the Pacific slopes are henceforth emphatically one people..." followed by an 8 point program of the ceremonies, then a subhead: "Announcement in Washington of the Completion of the Road--Scene in the Telegraph Office", then some details on the proceedings. The text includes several religious services in New York churches concerning the ceremonies.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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