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150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Event

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April 11, 2019 - 2:00pm
Tresidder Union
Oak Lounge
459 Lagunita Drive, Stanford

Free and open to the public

This event is hosted by the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford. You are cordially invited to join the project team at this special event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike and celebrating the Chinese immigrant workers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. Read more

2:00 p.m.  Public Reception

Visit and view historical visualizations, oral history interviews, school curriculum modules, student research, archeology discoveries, digital scholarship, digital materials repository in the Stanford libraries, book releases

3:30 p.m.  Film Screening (world premier)

Phil Choy, Making Tracks,a documentary film by Barre Fong and Connie Young Yu based on material in the project’s oral histories collection

4:15 p.m.  Formal Remarks

University leadership and leaders in the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Event Sponsor: 
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford
Contact Email: 
ChineseRailroadWorkers@stanford.edu