Work Gallery

Lobster boat off the Atlantic coast of Maine and Canada

Lobster fishermen in the Grand Manan Channel between Maine and New Brunswick, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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

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