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  • April 22, 1871 | Illustration

    California Terminus Of The Central Pacific Railroad

    This image from the April 22, 1871 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the three large piers of the terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad in California.

  • February 10, 1872 | Illustration

    Danger Ahead

    This image from the February 10, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly offers an artist's conception of the response of a train crew to a warning of impending disaster.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • August 4, 1877 | Illustration

    A Mob Attacking a Train At Hornellsville, On July 22d

    As the Great Strike of 1877 developed, strikers on the Erie Railroad in New York stopped trains along their stretch of the route.

  • August 4, 1877 | Illustration

    A Night Scene In Company A's Room.

    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.

  • August 4, 1877 | Illustration

    A Skirmish Between the Rioters and Police In Eutaw Street, Baltimore

    When members of the Maryland National Guard moved through Baltimore on their way to Camden Station, street violence erupted as strikers and supporters protested the use of armed troops to keep order in Cumberland, Maryland.

  • August 4, 1877 | Illustration

    An Armed Mob Marching To The Scene of Action In Pittsburgh.

    Note the imagery that is slightly reminscient of Archibald Willard's famous painting The Spirit of '76.