Passenger Gallery

B&O Railroads Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Gold seekers en route to the California Gold Rush on a clipper ship in fair weather, 1849 or 1850.
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Hand-colored woodcut

Chinese immigrants aboard the Pacific Mail steamship "Alaska," bound for San Francisco, 1870s.
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