Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.

In this July 15, 1923, image provided by the CIHS Collection, Anchorage Museum, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana,

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