Railroads and the Making of Modern America

Our Documents archive includes personal letters, newspaper articles, images, business documents and more. Documents are identified with a particular Topic, and are accessible through and used by our Views. This page allows users to search the full archive. Our database includes all documents and objects in the Railroads and the Making of Modern America collection from various archives and partners, public as well as private. The collection is refreshed and reindexed regularly to include new materials, usually at the beginning of every academic semester (August, December, May).

Browse Railroad Index: For all documents indexed by railroad company name, using the Library of Congress authority names for railroad companies.
Historical Railroad Employees Database: This data set includes extant payrolls from the period before 1870 in an attempt to recover the names and occupations of the first generation of railroad employees in the U.S.
Slaveholding Railroad Company and Directors: This database is a partial effort to compile in one place the scattered information about railroad directors and slaveholding, and it will be continually updated as new information is discovered.

Railroads and the Making of Modern America

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