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  • 1861 | Photograph

    Cars of U.S. Military Rail Road, and bridge built by soldiers

  • March 4, 1868

    Catharine Brown, Complaint

    Catharine Brown filed suit against the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad in March 1868, arguing that a month earlier she was forcibly and violently ejected from the ladies car in Alexandria, Virginia, because of her color. She sought damages of $20,000 to pay for her medical care and to compensate for the injustice of segregation and discrimination. Brown's original petition focused on the railroad's duty as a common carrier and on Brown's first-class ticket which permitted her to ride in the ladies car.

  • March 4, 1868 | Legal decision

    Catharine Brown, Plaintiff's Prayers

    A brief description of the judgement Catherine Brown hoped for as the jury decided her case.

  • July 23, 1877

    Cause of the Strike and a Remedy

    This article from the July 23, 1877 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune outlines the various causes of the strike—placing blame on railroad workers and railroad executives—and stresses that the remedy to this situation can only be achieved once mob rule has been replace by law and order.

  • October 8, 1896 | Speech

    Cedar Rapids, IA Speech, 1896-10-08

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • 1932 | Map

    Centers of Population

    This map from the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States offers a geographic rendering of the United States' center of population from 1790 to 1930. It references six organizational categories, including total population, urban population, rural population, foreign-born population, and Negro population.

  • December 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Central Pacific Railroad—Chinese Laborers at Work

    This image from the December 7, 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Chinese laborers working on the Central Pacific Railroad.

  • December 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Central Pacific Railroad—Donner Lake

    This image from the December 7, 1862 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Donner Lake as seen from the Central Pacific Railroad.

  • December 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Central Pacific Railroad—Map and Profile Map of the Line from Omaha to San Francisco

    This image from the December 7, 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a map of the Pacific Railroad across the western United States from San Francisco, California to Omaha, Nebraska.

  • December 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Central Pacific Railroad—The Giant's Gap

    This image from the December 7, 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a very large gap in the mountains through which the Central Pacific Railroad runs.

  • December 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Central Pacific Railroad—View on American River

    This image from the December 7, 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a train running on the Central Pacific Railroad with a view of California's American River in the distance.

  • July 14, 1896 | Speech

    Centralia, IL Speech, 1896-07-14

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • July 16, 1896 | Speech

    Chamois, MO Speech, 1896-07-16

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • July 13, 1896 | Speech

    Champaign, IL Speech, 1896-07-13

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • October 23, 1896 | Speech

    Charleston, IL Speech, 1896-10-23

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • October 2, 1896 | Speech

    Charleston, WV Speech, 1896-10-02

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • September 17, 1896 | Speech

    Charlotte, NC Speech, 1896-09-17

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • 1885 | Time Table

    Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

    The Chesapeake and Ohio's 1885 time table featured excursion rates to "Old Point Comfort" on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. Pitched to male travelers, the brochure described "nymph-like bathers" at the resort hotel and "the merry laugh of some bewitching beauty." Travelers could also take steamship to Barbados, Rio de Janiero, or Para, Brazil, at "the mouth of the Amazon." The brochure also emphasized the picturesque scences of the Alleghenies and Virginia, where Civil War battlefields could be toured. "The battle of the Seven Pines was fought near where the railway runs," the brochure explained, "and McClellan's peninsular campaign has made this entire section of Virginia interesting."

  • September 7, 1867 | Illustration

    Cheyenne Indians Attacking a Working Party on the Union Pacific Railroad

    This image from the September 7, 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Cheyenne Indians on horseback attacking a party working for the Union Pacific Railroad.

  • 1886 | Time Table

    Chicago and Alton R.R.

    The Chicago and Alton time table stressed the regional, midwestern connections for St. Louis and Kansas City.