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President Roosevelt stands in line with several other people at a railroad station “ticket office.” A sign reads, “next train leaves 10.13 for the West.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-18
President Roosevelt gets into a horse drawn carriage after arriving at the railroad station in Oyster Bay, New York.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-1908
Eleanor Butler Alexander poses at a train station. Eleanor’s mother, Grace Green Alexander, had a large folding Kodak, which took 5×7 negatives.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-1897
Two old farmers talk on the platform at a train station. They are concerned about farm boys leaving the farms for the city, as well as mortgages being held by banks outside the local community. Caption: Uncle Josh — The boys won’t stay on the farms no more. / Uncle Silas — No; an’ you can hardly expect ’em to. Nowadays, even the mortgages don’t stay on the farms.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-16
Postcard featuring a picture of Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech from a railroad station platform in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A large crowd watches Roosevelt from all angles. Draped American flags decorate the platform.
1905
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Postcard showing the interior of the waiting room at Union Station in Washington D. C. The ceiling is arched and decorated with octagonal patterns. The windows above the entrances are also arched and decorated with squares. The space consists of a large, open area with double-sided benches with people sitting on them.
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Postcard showing a panoramic view of a large building, Union Station in Washington D. C., with columns, arched entrances, and a semi-arched central ceiling. Cars, pedestrians, trolley cars and horse-drawn vehicles visible throughout the foreground.
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This postcard shows a street scene from Cherbourg, France. While the left side is taken up by a street thickly lined with trees, the right side shows the large, arched roof of the train station. In the background stands the Fort du Roule on the mountain.
1910-12
This postcard shows Shimbashi Station, one of Tokyo’s major railroad stations, with the large plaza and streets in front of it populated by pedestrians and rickshaws. At the time of the visit of the sailors of the Great White Fleet, many university students were there to meet the sailors and act as guides while practicing their English.
1908
This postcard shows rickshaws standing on the left and right sides of a wide plaza in front of the Yokohama train station. When the Great White Fleet visited Japan, several tables stood in this plaza serving refreshments to the sailors traveling to Tokyo.
1908
Photograph showing a crowd at the train station to see Theodore Roosevelt at a Dutch frontier.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910
Various scenes of Oyster Bay, New York, and surrounding area, commissioned by the Roosevelt Memorial Association as part of its efforts to establish a memorial park in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. Most prominent views are of the mid-town intersection of East Main St. and South St., and the area around Oyster Bay railroad station, which borders the park site. Various shots of the intersection, in some of which campaign banners of the 1924 election are visible: pictures of President Coolidge, Charles Gates Dawes, and Ted Roosevelt, who unsuccessfully ran for New York governor against Alfred Emmanuel Smith in 1924, appear on the banners. Panning shots of a frame home by railroad tracks, steam engine with crew posed in front, and railroad station. Shots of a garbage dump and homes beside the bay, harbor area, row frame houses fronting on the garbage dump, and passenger train. These areas were to be included in the park.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1924
Black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt shaking hands at a railroad station.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-1905
A crowd gathered at a railroad station waits for Theodore Roosevelt to arrive by train in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-08-26
President Roosevelt greets citizens at a train depot in Fargo.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-07