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| Keywords: The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Albany County, Wyoming LCCN2015632843.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; The pyramidal stone monument which from a distance mimicks the rocky landscape was designed by prominent American architect Henry Hobson Richardson for whom Richardsonian Romanesque an entire style of architecture The Ames Monument is dedicated to Union Pacific Railroad financiers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames Jr The brothers garnered credit for connecting the nation by rail upon completion of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 The monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8 247 feet However the Union Pacific Railroad Company twice relocated the tracks farther south causing the town of Sherman that arose near the monument to become a ghost town The railroad spared no expense including Richardson's fee in creating the monument effectively to itself ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632843 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32800/32828a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32828 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32828 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||