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Collection Summary
Collection: 00410 - Museum Division Transfers Photograph Collection
Folder: MAP.005
Item: 00155
Title: Four Henry Villard Special trains at Bismarck, D.T. en route to Last Spike Ceremony in Montana
Date: 09/05/1883
Creator: Haynes, F. Jay--(Frank Jay),--1853-1921
Inscription/Marks: "The four Henry Villard Northern Pacific special trains at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1883, en route to the Last Spike Ceremony in Montana"--Typed on label affixed to front of photograph.
Summary: People wait in Bismarck to board four special Northern Pacific trains bound for the Last Spike Ceremony in Montana. People on board the trains already look out the windows. Buildings belonging to the Bismarck Lumber Company are visible in the background. Villard’s Special Excursion trains (there were four of them) stopped at Bismarck on September 5, 1883. The guests left the train and rode up the hill to attend the laying of the cornerstone of the new territorial capitol building.
Red ID: PH_I_151194 Image ID: 493747 Image Notes: 00410-00155b

Collection: 00410 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Museum Division Transfers Photograph Collection
Date: circa 1860-circa 1970

Summary: Collection consists of 212 miscellaneous photographs transferred to the Archives from the Museum Division.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00410 - Museum Division Transfers Photograph Collection
Folder: MAP.005
Item: 00155
Title: Four Henry Villard Special trains at Bismarck, D.T. en route to Last Spike Ceremony in Montana
Date: 09/05/1883
Creator: Haynes, F. Jay--(Frank Jay),--1853-1921
Inscription/Marks: "The four Henry Villard Northern Pacific special trains at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1883, en route to the Last Spike Ceremony in Montana"--Typed on label affixed to front of photograph.
Summary: People wait in Bismarck to board four special Northern Pacific trains bound for the Last Spike Ceremony in Montana. People on board the trains already look out the windows. Buildings belonging to the Bismarck Lumber Company are visible in the background. Villard’s Special Excursion trains (there were four of them) stopped at Bismarck on September 5, 1883. The guests left the train and rode up the hill to attend the laying of the cornerstone of the new territorial capitol building.
Red ID: PH_I_151194 Image ID: 108779 Image Notes: 00410-00155

Collection: 00410 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Museum Division Transfers Photograph Collection
Date: circa 1860-circa 1970

Summary: Collection consists of 212 miscellaneous photographs transferred to the Archives from the Museum Division.

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