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1935 | Artwork
Traffic, 7th Ave. Subway, about 1935
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1935 | Artwork
Railway Station, about 1935
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1937 | Artwork
Subway Drillers, 1937
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1938 | Artwork
Slag Heaps, 1938
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1939 | Artwork
Railroad Crossing, 1939
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1941 | Artwork
Slow Train Through Arkansas
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1955 | Artwork
Cow 13 and Train Number 3, Shawsville, Virginia, 1955 (printed 1987)
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1967 | Artwork
Entrance to Elevated - Randolph at Lake, Chicago
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1967 | Artwork
Railroad Station, Providence, Rhode Island, 1967
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1974 | Artwork
Prairie Boxcars, 1974
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1975 | Artwork
Railroad Switching Yards, 1975
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1980 | Artwork
Rainbows on a Train, 1980
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unkn | Artwork
Pennsylvania Station, New York
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1842 | Book
American Notes for General Consideration
Dicken's American Notes came from his 1842 trip to the United States. The author visited prisons, politicians, and toured primarily in New England and the Great Lakes region. In this excerpt, he describes American train travel in its early period, segregated railcars, and the distinctions between gentlemen's and ladies' cars.
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1850 | Book
Phelps's Travellers' Guide Through the United States
This pocket atlas listed over 700 railroads, steamship lines, and canals in the United States and their routes of service, state by state. Frederick Douglass probably consulted a rudimentary timetable in the Baltimore newspaper or one posted at the depot for the Baltimore to Philadelphia route, described here twelve years after Douglass made his escape from slavery on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad.
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1852 | Book
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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1854 | Book
Walden
An excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden. The progress represented by the railroad presents a mixed legacy to the rural life Thoreau treasures.
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1855 | Book
My Bondage and My Freedom
In this excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass recounts the segregation of Northern railcars and the attitudes of Northern passengers.
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1858 | Book
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857
Works like The Book of The Great Railway Celebrations were published with multiple purposes - they served great publicity for railroad companies and town boosters, as well as celebrations of technological advancements and ingenuity. The detailed illustrations and descriptions of the celebrations also made them prized souvenirs for event attendees.
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1861 | Book
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
In these excerpts from her memoir, Harriet Jacobs writes of the segregation and prejudice she faced in the North almost immediately after escaping from slavery.
