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October 2, 1896 | Speech
Covington, KY Speech, 1896-10-02
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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1955 | Artwork
Cow 13 and Train Number 3, Shawsville, Virginia, 1955 (printed 1987)
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1911 | Photograph
Crane Recovering a Damaged Locomotive
This image from The Modern Railroad(1911) captures two cranes removing a badly damaged Mogul locomotive from the site where it derailed.
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August 10, 1896 | Speech
Crestline, OH Speech 1, 1896-08-10
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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November 2, 1896 | Speech
Crete, NE Speech, 1896-11-02
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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1862 | Photograph
Cumberland Landing, Federal encampment on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, May 1862
Federal Encampment on the Pamunkey River, Va., May 1862. Union soldiers came into the South by steamer and train in the first year of the war. They closely observed the landscape, assessing and comparing it to their northern communities.
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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.
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August 8, 1896 | Speech
Davenport, IA Speech, 1896-08-08
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 19, 1896 | Speech
Dayton, OH Speech, 1896-10-19
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 29, 1896 | Speech
DeKalb, IL Speech, 1896-10-29
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 28, 1894 | Newspaper
Democracy and Trusts
Republican editor Edward Rosewater went on a campaign to discredit Thomas Majors, the Republican nominee for governor in 1894, and to expose railroad influence in the campaign. Rosewater's disgruntled disgust with party fealty to the railroads did not prevent him from attacking the Democratic Party as beholden to trusts and against the interests of workingmen.
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1880 | Book
Democracy, An American Novel
An excerpt from Henry Adams' Democracy, An American Novel.
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1863 | Photograph
Depot at Hannover Junction, PA
Northern railroad stations became places to gather for news and information. President Abraham Lincoln passed through Hanover Junction in November 1863 on his way to Gettysburg for the opening of the national cemetery. Crowds gathered to meet the president.
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August 7, 1896 | Speech
Des Moines, IA Speech 1, 1896-08-07
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 1, 1864 | Illustration
Destruction of Cars by General Hood
This image from the October 1, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the destruction of railway cars by Confederate General John Bell Hood before the evacuation of Atlanta during the American Civil War.
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May 21, 1864 | Illustration
Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
This image from the May 21, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Union soldiers from the First Brigade, Third Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps destroying the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad during the American Civil War.
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July 6, 1861 | Illustration
Destruction of the Railroad Bridge Over the Potomac
This image from the July 6, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the destruction of the Potomac railroad bridge near Harper's Ferry by Confederate troops.
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July 20, 1877 | Newspaper
Determined to Fight
This article from the July 20, 1877 edition of the Baltimore American notes the attitude of the railroad workers toward any attempted to break up the strike.
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October 17, 1896 | Speech
Detroit, MI Speech 2, 1896-10-17
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 18, 1896 | Speech
Detroit, MI Speech, 1896-10-18
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
