Caption on image: The Villard Excursion of 1883. President Henry Villard of the Northern Pacific Railroad, accompanied by a distinguished party of guests, celebrated the completion of the railroad at Gold Creek, Montana Territory on September 8, 1883, where the construction work from the East and West met. General U.S. Grant, Frederick Billings, William M. Evarts, Carl Schurz, James Bryce, Sir Robert Peel, George Bruce, General Adna Anderson, George M. Hillman, Edmund L. DeLastry, and many other notables comprised the party. (Photograph by Frank Jay Haynes, official photographer of the excursion).

• Subjects (LCSH): Steam locomotives--Montana--Gold Creek; Villard, Henry, 1935-1900; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Celebrations--Montana--Gold Creek