Transcontinental Railroad

Operation

American History Museum

Standard Time

Freight

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR freight rates, 1869

UPRR freight rates, 1869

Tourism

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City (click cover to see inside)

Telegraphy

Western Union completed the first Transcontinental telegraph in 1861, and the telegraph was essential for the Transcontinental Railroad as well. A telegraph message signalled the completion of the line, and would serve to coordinate train schedules and railroad operations in the decades to come.

Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators, found near the Great Salt Lake

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semaphore arm

Book of Rules, Western Maryland

silhouette, tie

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Pitcher (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Cattron Theimeg]

60c Eddie Rickenbacker single

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Continental Car Co. of America, Inc.]

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Footed bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Footed bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Lukens Steel Co.]

East End Tunnel

Plica umbra ochrocollaris

Railroad Signal and Tracks, (painting)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

The Three-Ringed Life: Clowning Around with David Carlyon

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Worth fighting for a history of the Negro in the United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction [by] Agnes McCarthy and Lawrence Reddick. Illustrated by Colleen Browning

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containting the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton. History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters. Full accounts of all the steamboat disaster. A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Lists of plantations on the Mississippi river. One hundred engravings and forty six maps. By James T. Lloyd

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Facts and arguments favorable to the construction of a rail-road from Fredericksburg to Orange court-house, addressed to the citizens of Fredericksburg, Orange, Culpeper, Madison, Greene and Rockingham

Murielus harpespiculus

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