Riding the Rails

February 7, 2011

How many cows could a cowcatcher catch, if a cowcatcher could catch cows?

Railroad Maps, 1828-1900

October 7, 2009

View maps created for a multitude of purposes related to travel by rail.

Making of America

April 14, 2008

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.

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs, 1894-1896

January 25, 2008

Explore this archive of over 900 images by American photographer, William Henry Jackson.