Union Pacific Locomotive #119 and Central Pacific Locomotive #60 ...

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are those takea at Promontory Summit in connection with the May 10,
1839 Golden Spike joining the rails ceremonies*
There were three photographers present at the ceremonies on
May ic, 1869. Alfred. A. Bart;, official photographer of the Ceatral
Pacific Railroad, with his studio at Sacrajaeato, had made the trip
to Promontory Sunanit to photograph the ceremonies. Andrew J. Bussell
had cose from New York for the saisa purpose as the official photo&r&her
of the tjaioa Pacific Railroad. Charlea H. Savage of th© firm of
Savage and Ottiager, Salt Lake City> was an independent photographer
present. These three men tooX all the known pictures of the ceremonies,
soiae of which have been reproduced many times in various "books and
publications, as well as in thousands ofstereoptic view sets of the
tiase and later. Often the picturea have been incorrectly attributed
to one of the three photographers present vhen in fact, thegr were
taken by another. Beeeat studies have sho^n that the best views
taJtezt "by AniSrev J. Suasell, but reproductions of perhaps the most
widely used have been wrongly attributed ta Savage.
Several of the best views of Jupiter were takea "by Hart on the
day before the ceremonies, when th© Staaiord party was killing time
in going baeis to Monument Point aad aight-seeiag along the right-of-
way and oa the shore of Sale l&ke.
A few picturea of Jupiter wre taken later, almost hy accident
it aeejas. And there are a feu surviviag pictures of sister