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Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad

The Bamboo Brothers – A Story of the Chinese Who Connected America

Recognize the image below? This famous photograph immortalizes the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, taken shortly after the joining of the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. It was perhaps the greatest engineering feat of its time, yet absent from this image are any of the 15,000 Chinese railmen who helped make it possible.

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