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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
Members of Battery B., N.G.S.N.Y., Equipping In the Arsenal For A Move.
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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October 5, 1896 | Speech
Memphis, TN Speech, 1896-10-05
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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N.D. | Artwork
Metro Station, undated
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July 18, 1877 | Newspaper
Midnight News from the Seat of War
This article from the July 18, 1877 edition of the Baltimore Sun gives an account of the strikers' growing strength and the government's inability to stop it.
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1861 | Photograph
Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek on the Richmond, Frederickburg & Potomac Railroad
A trestle railroad bridge built by the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps.
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1864 | Photograph
Military Railroad Bridge over Potomac Creek, 1864
This bridge was destroyed and rebuilt several times. In May 1862 General Irwin McDowell employed hundreds of contraband laborers, who replaced the bridge in nine days. Here, in May 1864, the U.S. Military Railroads, again with large numbers of black freedmen, constructed the bridge in forty hours. Photographs such as this one indicated the complexity, cost, and scale of the bridges across many of the South?s rivers and also conveyed the precarious, and sublime, ways the railroad was thought to defy nature.
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July 9, 1864 | Illustration
Military Telegraph to Ackworth, Georgia
This image from the July 9, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Union soldiers under the command of General William T. Sherman constructing a telegraph line along railroad tracks in Georgia.
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September 5, 1896 | Speech
Milwaukee, WI Speech 2, 1896-09-05
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 5, 1896 | Speech
Milwaukee, WI Speech 3, 1896-09-05
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 12, 1896 | Speech
Minneapolis, MN Speech 1, 1896-10-12
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 12, 1896 | Speech
Minneapolis, MN Speech 3, 1896-10-12
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 11, 1877 | Illustration
Mob Threatens the Ninth Regiment
This August 11, 1877 image from Leslie's Illustrated depicts the crowd threatening infantrymen of the Ninth New York State National Guard in Albany on July 24, 1877. Such discussions tested the loyalties of local and state militias, as strikers justified their cause and gained solidarity with militia.
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August 12, 1896 | Speech
Moberly, MO Speech, 1896-09-12
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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1859 | Illustration
Modern Chivalry
Chivalry is part and parcel of the conductor's work.
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August 8, 1896 | Speech
Moline, IL Speech, 1896-08-08
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 24, 1896 | Speech
Monmouth, IL Speech, 1896-10-24
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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June 5, 1852 | Contract
Mordecai Sizer's Estimate No. 27 for the Month of May, 1852
Contractors on the Blue Ridge Railroad and Tunnel project filled out elaborate and detailed descriptions of work that they were to complete.
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September 23, 1896 | Speech
Morristown, NJ Speech, 1896-09-23
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 14, 1896 | Speech
Mount Vernon, IL Speech, 1896-09-14
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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May 9, 1862 | Map
Movements near Corinth, Mississippi
Although small, this map illustrates the interconnection of railroads and battle lines in the South.