Labor Gallery

Building the railroad to Bismarck, North Dakota, 1870s

Laying railroad track in winter across the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1879.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native Americans

Cheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867.
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Wiring New York City for electricity, 1880s

Workers testing the insulation of electric wires going in the streets of New York City, 1882.
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