Grand Canyon train station
Photograph of the Grand Canyon train station where Theodore Roosevelt arrived.
Collection
Creation Date
1903-05-06
Your TR Source
Railroad stations
Will it come to this when the president pays his own way?
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.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt gets into a horse drawn carriage after arriving at the railroad station in Oyster Bay, New York.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1901-1908
Eleanor Butler Alexander at train station
Eleanor Butler Alexander poses at a train station. Eleanor’s mother, Grace Green Alexander, had a large folding Kodak, which took 5×7 negatives.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-1897
The age of prosperity
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.
Comments and Context
Increasingly at the time of Gallaway’s cartoon, when Puck hit upon a good humorous gag, the magazine was inclined to bounce the usual partisan cartoon. But even a commentary about country boys leaving for the big cities had subtexts of politics or social commentary. The reference here to mortgages being held by distant banks, but also the threats of foreclosures.
Dull
A tourist from the city stands on the steps of a railroad passenger car, speaking to an old man and a young boy standing on the platform at a train station in a quiet community known as “Restville.” A man with a heavy beard and smoking a pipe is leaning against the wall of the station. Another man sitting in a chair appears to be asleep. Caption: The Tourist. — Rather quiet here, isn’t it? Leading Citizen (of Restville). — Quiet? – why, say, even the unexpected don’t happen here!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1901-06-26
America’s tribute to its Chief Magistrate – thus crowds greet him everywhere
A crowd gathered at a train station to greet President Roosevelt
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-05-26
The Godspeed of an American crowd to an American President–President’s Special leaving Colorado Springs, Col.
President Theodore Roosevelt’s train in background and crowd in foreground.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-06-23
A bouquet for President Roosevelt from a wee daughter of California at Mojave
A woman and a girl with a bouquet of flowers for President Roosevelt at a railroad station
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-18
Roosevelt’s “Rough Rider’s” [sic] arrival at Tampa, Fla., U.S.A.
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Depicts the off-loading of men and horses at railroad facilities.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-07-14
President Roosevelt Speaking from Railroad Station, Bridgeport, Conn.
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.
Collection
Creation Date
1905
Santa Fe Station. Grand Canyon, Arizona
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Creation Date
Unknown
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Language
English
Union Station and Columbus Memorial Fountain, Washington, D. C.
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Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Language
English
Pueblo Indians selling pottery
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Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Language
English
Union Station, St. Louis Mo.
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Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Language
English
Union Station waiting room, Washington
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.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Here is the public waiting room of the Union Station which is 120ft wide and 220ft long and the finest and best equipped waiting room in the world.”
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New Union Station, Washington D. C.
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.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Looking down the hill from the Capitol we see the Union Station which in the finest station building in the world. It was built by the Government and the railway compaines [sic]. To the left is shown the presidents private entrance to the very fine waiting rooms provided for him.”
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Cherbourg – La Gare et la Montagne du Roule
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.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A street scene in the city. The arched roof Bldg is the Ry. station where we took the train for Paris. The round trip fare was 20 franc which is $4 in U.S. money, this however was excursion rates for the American men.”
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The Shimbashi Station, Tokyo
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.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “This is the station where we arrive in Tokyo, Shimbashi Station.”
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Station Yokohama
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.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “We will now go down to the station at Yokohama and take the train for Tokio [sic], about 2 hours run, and thru [sic] a beautiful country. The Japs are an artistic people and the whole country is as a park and no waste places, every foot of ground is used to some advantage. Passed many rice fields on the way to Tokyo and also passed several school houses. Ours being a special train the school children all knew when when we would be past their school house and at every place school was dismissed and the teacher and children were collected along the track and shouted welcome to us and waved american [sic] flags at us as we passed.”