WESTWARD, THE MONARCH CAPITAL MAKES ITS WAY
WESTWARD, THE MONARCH CAPITAL MAKES ITS WAY. Oct. 1866 photograph by John Carbutt. Photo depicts either Samuel B. Reed, chief engineer of construction, U.P.R.R. or Thomas Chase Durant, U.P.R.R. Vice President, on the flat, unsettled land through which they were building the transcontinental railway. Durant created the financial structure which led to the Credit Mobilier scandal
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13125871
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45376348
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2216px x 2400px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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