EVENTS OF THE WEST
Transcontinental Photos
his year marks the sesquicentennial of the 1869 completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific Museum [] in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is partnering with the Joslyn Art Museum [] in Omaha, Neb., on “The Race to Promontory,” a traveling exhibition of photographs and stereographs by Andrew Joseph Russell and Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction] in Sacramento, Calif., .
