Railroads--Track

Photograph of the Grand Canyon train station where Theodore Roosevelt arrived.

Collection

Grand Canyon National Park

Creation Date

1903-05-06

Flood waters of the Little Missouri River where a sandbag barrier was constructed between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks near the entrance to the park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03

Park staff sandbagging the area between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

Park staff and others filling sandbags for barrier being constructed between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

Park staff and others filling sandbags for barrier being constructed between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-04

Park staff and others sandbagging between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

Completed sandbagging project by park staff between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

Park staff sandbagging the area between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

Park staff sandbagging the area between U.S. Highway 10 and railroad tracks across from the park entrance due to flooding waters of the Little Missouri River.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-03-26

William Jennings Bryan, walking along railroad tracks and following a sign “To Salt River,” drags a carpet bag which contains a gold cross, crown of thorns, bellows, and possibly a megaphone. Following him are Arthur Brisbane who is carrying a doll-like William Randolph Hearst, James K. Jones, Charles A. Towne, Richard F. Pettigrew, and Gardner F. Williams.

comments and context

Comments and Context

In the 1904 Democratic convention, the remnants of Bryanism — remaining supporters and a few old platform planks — and William Jennings Bryan himself were routed. The conservative but obscure Judge Alton Brooks Parker was the party’s presidential nominee, and the traditional views of leaders like former president Grover Cleveland were ratified in the platform.

A newspaper article detailing the needs of the American railroad system in its “hour of trial by public criticism.” The list of needs includes fuel, cars, trackage, money, and mercy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Detroit Publishing Co.

Language

English

Associate Justice Hughes and President Roosevelt walk along a railroad track dressed in rags. Roosevelt plays a banjo and sings, “I love the cows and chickens.” A nonplussed local resident says, “Might fix ’em up a mess of bread an’ lassas Ma.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1916

A locomotive labeled “Private Monopoly Special” races down tracks labeled “Opportunity” while two trains labeled “Plain People Local” and “Legitimate Business” have been side-tracked, giving the monopoly the “right of way.” Caption: As in railroading, everything is side-tracked for the special.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-05-25

William Jennings Bryan carries a “Cross of Gold,” a “Crown of Thorns,” and a carpetbag labeled “W.J.B. Speeches” as he walks along railroad tracks headed in the opposite direction of Washington, D.C. Walking with him are newspaper editors Edwin Lawrence Godkin carrying papers labeled “Anti-American Editorials,” Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Atkinson, Carl Schurz carrying a drum on his back labeled “Anti-Expansion Band,” and Oswald Ottendorfer carrying a small bag labeled “Staats Zeitung.” In the background, William McKinley is riding on a railroad car labeled “Expansion Train” that is racing along railroad tracks, headed for Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-12-20

A man labeled “Hayseed Legislator” waits next to obstacles labeled “Corruption, Spite against N. Y. City, Backwoods Bullheadedness, [and] Petty Jealousy” that he has placed on railroad tracks ahead of an oncoming train labeled “N. Y. City Reforms.” He is hoping to cause the train to derail.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-05-13

David B. Hill and a donkey labeled “N. Y. Democracy” sit on the ground, staring at each other, next to railroad tracks with a caboose rolling into the background. They look as though they were thrown off the train for freeloading.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-11-04

C. E. Wilkinson proposes a rail line through Michigan that connects cities including Detroit, Lansing, Owossa, and Saginaw.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-11-09