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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
The Fifth New Jersey Militia Guarding the Switch-House at East Newark
Fears of violence during the 1877 strike pushed many states to press local guards and militias into service in railyards.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
Pennsylvania - Attempt To Arrest A Rioter At Pittsburgh.
The violence at Pittsburgh resulted in numerous arrests - one is pictured below.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
Pennsylvania - Bishop Twigg Urging The Pittsburgh Rioters To Desist, On July 23d.
With other local clergy, Bishop Twigg of Pittsburgh tried to quell the violence of the strike and rioting.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
The Sixth Regiment Firing Upon the Mob
This August 4, 1877 image from Leslie's Illustrated depicts soldiers from the Sixth National Guard Regiment firing into the crowd, which includes women in the foreground and features the crowd hurling bricks, waving clubs, and shooting at the soldiers with a revolver.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
New York. - Rioters Soaping The Track At Hornellsville.
Strikers greased the tracks running out of Hornellsville up Tip Top Summit, effectively preventing trains from climbing the grade.
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August 4, 1877 | Illustration
Serving Chowder To The Soldiers.
This image comes from a series of illustrations "Scenes In The Armory Of The Seventh Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y." depicting the soldiers' stay in their armory in preparation for violence on the streets of New York.
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August 1, 1877 | Illustration
Puck Humorous Weekly
This dramatic image appeared on two pages of the August 1, 1877 edition of PUCK Magazine and illustrates a skeleton-headed train running past apparently injured women, with dark images of laborers in the smoke.
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August 1, 1877 | Illustration
"Wife—I Guess We've Got To Strike!"
This cover illustration from the August 1, 1877 issue of PUCK Magazine depicts a poor family's decision to go on strike.
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August 1, 1877 | Illustration
A Pun on Kars
This image from the August 1, 1877 edition of PUCK Magazine is a pun on Kars (a city in Turkey) that depicts a soldier being pulled behind a railroad car.
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July 25, 1877 | Illustration
Digging Their Own Graves
This image from the front page of the July 25, 1877 issue of PUCK Magazine mockingly depicts two strikers "digging their own graves."
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May 29, 1875 | Illustration
Shooting Antelopes From A Railroad Train In Colorado
This scene from the May 29, 1875 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a hunting party shooting pronghorn antelope from a railroad train in Colorado.
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March 14, 1874 | Illustration
A Patient Railroad Traveler
In an apparent commentary on the slowness of some railroad companies, this image from the March 14, 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly offers a cartoonist's conception of a patient railroad traveler.
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December 21, 1872 | Illustration
Constructing Railroad Ties
This image from the December 21, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts five people seated in a passenger car.
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November 9, 1872 | Illustration
The Workmen's Train
This image from the November 9, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a workmen's train in the subway of London, England as a part of a fictional story entitled London: A Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.
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April 27, 1872 | Illustration
The Proposed Harbor at Dover
This image from the April 27, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a proposed harbor at Dover, Delaware, that includes a railroad depot for shipping cargo.
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March 30, 1872 | Illustration
The Depot at Moss Neck
This image from the March 30, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a railroad depot at Moss Neck, North Carolina.
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March 30, 1872 | Illustration
Justice On The Rail
This image from the March 30, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a cartoonist's view of justice "derailing" a corrupt ring on the Erie Railroad.
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March 23, 1872 | Illustration
Accident to the Boston Express
This image from the March 23, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a train derailment on the Boston Express near Springfield, Massachusetts.
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February 10, 1872 | Illustration
The Snow Plow Clearing the Way
This image from the February 10, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a snow plow on the Central Pacific Railroad.
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February 10, 1872 | Illustration
Snow Sheds Covered With Snow
This image from the February 10, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad.