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A railroad spike is a pointed, iron object used to secure rails and tie plates to ties in the track. This one is from the "museum room" of collector Johnson Alcott Holmes of Manhattan, Kansas.
Date: between 1943 and 1963
Item Number: 220931
Call Number: 1973.81.1023
KSHS Identifier: 1973.81.1023
Business and Industry - Railroad - Construction and maintenance
Collections - Museum
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Objects and Artifacts - Distribution & Transportation Artifacts - Rail Transportation, Accessory - Spike
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220931