Riding the Rails
How many cows could a cowcatcher catch, if a cowcatcher could catch cows?
Intertwined Development: Railroads and Political Parties
The influence of the booming rail system on the growth and development of three political parties in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
View maps created for a multitude of purposes related to travel by rail.
Making of America
Provides more than 1.5 million pages of text in an effort to digitize more than 11,000 volumes and 100,000 19th-century journal articles.
Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Browse more than 8,000 objects related to Chinese immigrant life in California.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs, 1894-1896
Explore this archive of over 900 images by American photographer, William Henry Jackson.