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Donald Smith, later Lord Strathcona, driving the last spike, C. P. R., Craigellachie, BC, 1885 (copied about 1928)
Photographer
Alexander James Ross
(1851-1894)
Distributor
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
SignatureImprinted c. b. on adhesive label, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL(...)
Date
About 1928
Medium / Technique
Silver salts and coloured ink on glass
Gelatin silver process
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions8.2 x 10.1 cm
Origin
Canada
Object NumberMP-0000.158.125
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of Stanley G. Triggs
Status
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