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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Hand-colored woodcut

Chinese immigrants aboard the Pacific Mail steamship "Alaska," bound for San Francisco, 1870s.
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Customs inspectors checking steamship passenger luggage

First-class passengers baggage inspected on arrival of a steamship in New York harbor, 1880s.
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