Images Dated 8th December 2011 (page 9)

Transcontinental railroad across the Great Plains
Transcontinental railroad track to a station on the Great Plains, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Immigrants building the transcontinental railroad
Asian and European immigrants working on the last mile of the transcontinental railroad, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Financiers of the transcontinental railroad
Railroad kings Huntington, Stanford, Ames, Crocker, Dillon, and Moffat, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Travel by railroad and canal, 1837
Advertisement for rail and canal travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Louisville, 1837. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dining car on the transcontinental railroad
Palace Hotel dining car on the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869
Central Pacific passenger train passing through a canyon in Nevada, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Laying railroad track across the Great Plains
Workers laying track for the transcontinental railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Steam locomotive 1850s
Locomotive on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Freight train brakemen in a blizzard
Railroad brakemen working atop boxcars in a snowstorm, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Huygens clock diagram
Side view of Huygenss clock, showing the pendulum mechanism, 1600s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration

PSCI2A-00109
Cyrus McCormick portrait, inventor of the mechanical reaper Hand-colored etching of a 19th-century portrait

Yale Universitiy in the late 1700s
Yale College in 1784. Hand-colored woodcut of an illustration

Hans Christian Oersted, who founded the study of electromagnetism. Digitally colored woodcut

Abraham de Moivre
Mathematician Abraham de Moivre. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand-Marie de Lesseps, who conceptualized the Suez Canal. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Harvard College, 1720
Harvard College in 1720. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

Jean-Baptiste-Andre Dumas
French chemist Jean-Baptiste-Andre Dumas. Digitally colored woodcut

Dr. John Clarke, co-founder of Rhode Island, portrait in 1664. Digitally colored woodcut of a 17th-century portrait

Busy New Orleans waterfront, late 1800s
Steamboats and barges on the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Barges towed by steam power on the Erie Canal
Steam-powered canal-boat towing a barge on the Erie Canal, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Chinatown shops, San Francisco, 1880s
Busy Chinatown street in San Francisco, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Denver in the 1870s
Busy downtown Denver, Colorado, late 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906
Fire raging in downtown San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an eyewitness illustration

Small three-toed horse from fossil beds in South Dakota
Three-toed Hipparion from the Niobrara beds in South Dakota, an ancestor of the horse. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 1903 illustration

Hartford on the Connecticut River, 1850s
Steamboats on the Connecticut River in Hartford, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Iguanodon, a large herbivorous dinosaur of the early Cretaceous period, a restoration by Woodward, 1890s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Elothere, an extinct hog of North America
Extinct species of giant pig, Elothere, of ancient South Dakota. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an 1890s Charles Knight illustration

Titanothere, an extinct rhinocerus of North America
Extinct species of rhinocerus, Titanothere, ancient South Dakota. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an 1890s Charles Knight illustration

Roman Catholic Pope, 1500s - 1600s
Roman Catholic Pope in formal attire (center) and in house vestments (right), Swiss Guard at left, 1500s-1600s Antique hand-colored print

Pulpit in a Boston church, 1700s
Minister preaching in a Boston pulpit, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Methodist revival meeting on Cape Cod, 1850s
Preacher leading a Methodist camp meeting in Eastham, Massachusetts, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonial Quaker meetinghouse in New Jersey
First Quaker meeting-house in Burlington, New Jersey, a hexagon built in 1683. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Saint Augustine statue in St. Augustine, Florida
Statue of St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, in a niche of the Cathedral of Saint Augustine, Florida. Digital photograph

Saint Boniface
Boniface, medieval English missionary to Germany. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Saint Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia, founder of Benedictine monasteries. Hand-colored engraving

Pope Innocent III
Portrait of Pope Innocent III. Digitally colored woodcut

Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 596 AD. Digitally colored woodcut

Ulfilas, Christian missionary to the Visigoths
Bishop Ulfilas translating the Bible into Gothic, 4th century AD. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith by a mob in jail in Carthage, Illinois, 1844. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Tomas de Torquemada, organizer of the Spanish Inquisition. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

John Wesley
Portrait of Methodist minister John Wesley. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Ulrich Zwingli
Swiss religious reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a portrait

Charles Grandison Finney, clergyman and president of Oberlin College. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Martin Luther writing
Martin Luther at his desk. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

St Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi addressing a group of birds. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Confucius
Portrait of Confucius. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521
Martin Luther on trial before Cardinal Cajetanus, Diet of Worms, 1521. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Praying over a suspected witch in Salem, 1690s
Reverend Cotton Mather attempting to save a soul from witchcraft by prayer, Salem, Massachusetts, 1690s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Darley illustration

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