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1880 | Time Table
Baltimore and Ohio R.R.
The Baltimore and Ohio was one of the oldest railroads in the nation and the first to break through the Allegheny Mountains to reach the Ohio River in 1857. In its 1880 time table the railroad stressed the natural features and wonders along its route and its picturesque sites. The road also used a massive map of the nation to expose its western connections.
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June 1, 1858 | Rate Tables
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Coal Tariff, June 1, 1858
This June 1, 1858 table outlines the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's coal tariff rates to and from various locations. The B & O set its rates based on a "per ton" weight of 2,240 pounds.
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October 20, 1862 | Rate Tables
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Passenger Rates, October 20, 1862
This Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger rate table, which took effect October 20, 1862, includes a note from E. W. Barker which states that, "This Tariff was in force from the 20th Oct. 1862 to 1st Jany. 1863."
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October 8, 1862 | Illustration
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station at Hancock
This image from the October 8, 1862 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the railroad station in Hancock, Maryland.
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September 19, 1896 | Speech
Baltimore, MD Speech 1, 1896-09-19
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 19, 1896 | Speech
Baltimore, MD Speech 2, 1896-09-19
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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1858 | Illustration
Barnum's City Hotel, Monument Square, Baltimore
This 1858 advertisement for the Barnum Hotel in Baltimore promotes the hotel, notes a few of its luxuries, and boasts of the ability to house 600 guests. Railroads helped inaugurate a wide array of luxury hotels designed to meet the needs of a traveling public and business class.
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1861 | Photograph
Barricades at Alexandria, Virginia.
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August 17, 1896 | Speech
Barrytown, NY Speech, 1896-08-17
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 26, 1896 | Speech
Bath, ME Speech, 1896-09-26
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
Battery B., N.G.S.N.Y., Waiting For Orders In The Old Arsenal On Elm Street.
This image comes from a pair of illustrations: "New York City. - The Influence, In The Metropolis, Of The Railroad Strikes - The State National Guard Preparing To Move To The Seat Of Action."
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August 8, 1877 | Illustration
Beecher's Theory and Practice
This cover image from the August 8, 1877 issue of PUCK Magazine depicts Henry Ward Beecher as a hypocrite.
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September 14, 1896 | Speech
Belleville, IL Speech, 1896-09-14
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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December 31, 1869 | Legal decision
Benjamin H. Hinds Deposition
Catharine Brown's attorneys deposed two white men who were on the train with Brown and witnessed her expulsion from the cars in Alexandria. Both lived in Maine and were deposed in December 1869. Benjamin Hinds' testimony was particularly significant because he described in detail the violence he witnessed, and because he knew Brown "since January 1866," perhaps from her work in the U.S. Capitol, and tried to intervene on her behalf.
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1867 | Book
Beyond the Mississippi; from the Great River to the Great Ocean
Albert D. Richardson's Beyond the Mississippi; from the Great River to the Great Ocean is a detailed and exciting account of life and travels in the West and Far West in the years before the transcontinental railroad was completed. From Native American life, to gold fields, to emigrant trains, Richardson's portrayals of the region are interesting and informative. In this section, he describes the building of the transcontinental railroad in Nebraska - "the Conquest of Nature moving toward the Pacific."
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July 9, 1864 | Illustration
Big Shanty Station
This image from the July 9, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Union soldiers under the command of General William T. Sherman at "Big Shany Station" near Kennesaw, Georgia.
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February 22, 1827 | Contract
Bill of Sale for South Carolina Slaves, February 22, 1827
This February 22, 1827 bill describes the sale of a dozen South Carolina slaves—"Dolly, Jacke, Jemmy, Grace, Dinah, Liddy, John and an infant, Paul, Hagar, Jack and Jane"—from "the estate of Arnoldus Vanderhorst, deceased" to Edward Frost for $3,020. Frost was President of the Blue Ridge Rail Road in South Carolina.
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1864 | Photograph
Bird?s Eye View of Machine Shops, with East Yard of Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Alexandria, Va., [1861-1865]
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, African Americans seized the opportunity to work and to travel. Visible just to the left of the railroad shop smokestack and roundhouse stood the old Price and Birch "Slave Pen" at 1315 Duke Street.
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March 31, 1883
Bishop Campbell's Indignity
The expulsion of an African American preacher from a Georgia rail car draws the ire of Philadelphia citizens.
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July 21, 1877 | Newspaper
Bloodshed On Baltimore Street
This article from the July 21, 1877 Baltimore Sun gives an account of the confrontation between soldiers and citizens in Baltimore.
