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August 8, 1896 | Speech
Colfax, IA Speech, 1896-08-08
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 30, 1877 | Newspaper
Collapse of the Strike
This selection of articles from the July 30, 1877 issue of the Pittsburgh Daily Post notes the events of the railroad strike around the country and describes the situation regarding current railroad operations.
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August 11, 1877 | Illustration
Colonel Agramonte's Cavalry Charges the Mob
This August 11, 1877 image from Leslie's Illustrated depicts the U.S. cavalry charging into the crowd in Chicago on July 26, 1877, and emphasizes the crowd's fear and panic in the face of sabers-drawn, overwhelming military response.
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September 1, 1896 | Speech
Columbus, OH Speech, 1896-09-01
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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May 29, 1869 | Illustration
Completion of the Pacific Railroad, Harper?s Weekly, May 29, 1869
This image was a metaphor for where the nation was going, although it said little about where the nation had been. Created by Alfred R. Waud, one of the most prolific Civil War sketch artists and lithographers, the image suggested a national tapestry of progress. Far from binding the nation, railroads and the culture that developed around them had been one of the root causes of discord and division.
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June 5, 1869 | Illustration
Completion of the Pacific Railroad—Meeting of Locomotives of the Union and Central Pacific Lines: The Engineers Shake Hands
This image from the June 5, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a large celebratory gathering around the place where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines joined at Promontory Summit, Utah.
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1861 | Photograph
Confederate guns, Pensacola Bay, 1861
Columbiad guns of the Confederate water battery at Warrington, Fla., near Pensacola, February 1861. With the railroad to Pensacola under construction and finally completed in May, the Confederates could move large guns and troops more quickly to the coast.
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September 3, 1894 | Newspaper
Consecrated Perfidy
Republican editor Edward Rosewater criticizes the strike commission investigation and argues little of value will emerge from its recommendations because railroads have so much influence. Rosewater includes a little poem about Thomas Scott, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, ridiculing him as self-absorbed and arrogant.
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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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August 11, 1877 | Illustration
Construction Gang Repairing the Tracks at Corning
The strike spread from Baltimore into small towns, big cities, and rural areas in the summer of 1877. This August 11, 1877 image from Leslie's Illustrated depicts a gang of workers under the protection of the 23rd New York State National Guard Regiment repairing the tracks near Corning, New York.
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August 11, 1877 | Illustration
Construction Gang Righting Overturned Cars
Scenes of repair and destruction of railroads in this August 11, 1877 image from Leslie's Illustrated were similar to illustrations throughout the Civil War. This lithograph depicts a construction gang, under the protection of the New York State Militia, righting overturned cars near Corning, New York.
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November 5, 1894 | Newspaper
Continued Misrepresentation
Bryan's World Herald defends his record on behalf of the working man and against Republican charges that he favors wage reductions.
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1862 | Photograph
Contrabands at Cumberland Landing, Virginia, May 1862
In the Peninsular Campaign, Federal forces encountered thousands former slaves who sought freedom and work in the Union army camps. Even if slaves fled slavery, their status was unclear in the first year of the war. In July 1862 Congress declared such refugees from slavery ?forever and henceforth free.?
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February 1, 1855 | Contract
Contract Between the Illinois Central Railroad Company and Pinkerton & Company, February 1, 1855
In this February 1, 1855 contract between the Illinois Central Railroad and Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency, Pinkerton & Company agree to establish a "Police Agency" in Chicago to assist the Railroad in the "prompt and efficient performance of their business."
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December 23, 1853 | Contract
Contract for Negro Slaves, December 23, 1853
In December 1853, George A. Farrow and David Hansbrough signed a contract with the Blue Ridge Railroad to provide fifty slaves to assist in the construction of the Blue Ridge railroad tunnel.
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December 18, 1888 | Newspaper
Couldn't Ride on the Sleeper
The ejection of Reverend H. F. Lee from a Georgia railcar is reported.
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October 31, 1896 | Speech
Council Bluffs, IA Speech 1, 1896-10-31
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 31, 1896 | Speech
Council Bluffs, IA Speech 2, 1896-10-31
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 31, 1896 | Speech
Council Bluffs, IA Speech 3, 1896-10-31
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 22, 1896 | Speech
Council Bluffs, IA Speech, 1896-07-22
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
