1,884 Railroads, 19th century Images: NYPL's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Union Stock Yards [stockyards], Chicago. Chicago Stereoscope Card Coll...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[View of a railroad construction site, Davenport, Iowa.]

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Entrance to Bridge from East St. Louis.

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P. & O.R.R., Crawford Notch, N.H. New Hampshire in 19th century. Stere...

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Frankenstein Trestle and Cliff, P.& O.R.R., Crawford Notch.

New Hampshire stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker wh... More

Frankenstein Trestle and Train, P. & O.R.R., Crawford Notch.

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Frankenstein Trestle, P. & O.R.R., White Mts. Notch.

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Frankenstein Trestle, P. & O.R.R., White Mts. Notch.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frankenstein Trestle, P. & O.R.R., White Mts. Notch.

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Dismal Pool & R.R., White Mtn. Notch.

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Fabyan House, front view. New Hampshire in 19th century. Stereoscope c...

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Summit of Mt. Washington and railroad train.

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View from Cascade Bridge. New York Sterecope Card.

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

Ramapao, with Torn Mountain in the distance.

Public domain image of a train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

On the Ramapao, east of Wild Cat.

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Starucca Creek and Viaduct. New York Sterecope Card.

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Elevated rail road. New York Sterecope Card.

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[View of elevated railway with train.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Bowery and elevated railroads, New York.

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Grand Central Depot. New York Sterecope Card.

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The Grand Central Depot, 42nd St. and 4th Ave.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grand Central Depot. New York Sterecope Card.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Railroad trestle work, between 100th & 116th Streets on 4th Avenue, Ne...

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Valley of the Ramapo near Turners Station.

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Columbiad, practising [practicing] gun at West Point.

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West Point Road from wharf. New York Sterecope Card.

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Flirtation Walk. New York Sterecope Card.

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Captured Mexican mortars, West Point. New York Sterecope Card.

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

Cadets' barracks. New York Sterecope Card.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Captured Mexican mortars, West Point. New York Sterecope Card.

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

West Point, cadet's encampment. New York Sterecope Card.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

West Point buildings from Fort Putnam.

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15 in Rodman gun West Point - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

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Skirmish line drill, cadets, West Point Military Academy.

New York State stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w... More

Skirmish line drill, cadets, West Point Military Academy.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, athletics team, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Views up No. 13 plane at Hawley.

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Coal train waiting to be weighed.

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Native American students in a saddle shop at the United States Indian ...

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Trains loaded with pig iron, showing coke ovens on left and Monongahel...

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Horror of horrors! A view of the great Stone Bridge, where thousands o...

Pennsylvania stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Looking through cleft in Prospect Rock.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

View from South Mountain, Mauch Chunk.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

View in Fairmount Park. Lower deck, Callowhill St. bridge.

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View of a train between large banks of snow on the F. & P. Rwy.

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Pleasant Valley, looking East. Central Pacific Railroad Company. 19th ...

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Bloomer Cut, 800 feet long, looking east.

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Road east of station at Auburn.

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Eagle Gap, Truckee River. Central Pacific Railroad Company. 19th centu...

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1,000-mile Tree, Weber Canyon, Utah.

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Summits of Sierras, 8,000 to 10,000 feet altitude.

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Pleasant Valley, lower cañon of Truckee.

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The Devil's War-club, (Witch Rocks), Utah. U.P.R.R.

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Donner Lake, Tunnels no. 7 and 8, from Summit Tunnel, eastern summit i...

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Theatre, Salt Lake. Central Pacific Railroad Company. 19th century.

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Pullman's Palace Sleeping Car Palmyra [interior].

Central Pacific Railroad stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native Ne... More

Red Bluffs, lower cañon of Truckee, 179 miles from Sacramento.

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Railroad around Crested Peak, view from foot of Donner Lake.

Central Pacific Railroad stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native Ne... More

Head quarters, Platte City, Oct. 25th, 1866 [photographer's shadow in ...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Construction train, west of Hays City, Kansas.

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View on the Kansas River, Topeka, Kansas, 351 miles west of St. Louis,...

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Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas, 402 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

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Washoe Indians, the chief's family. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Great Falls, Missouri River. 19th century stereoscope Card. Missouri.

Missouri stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

American River, from the Central Pacific R.R. around Cape Horn. Bridg...

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[...] approach Mullen Tunnel. [Men working at entrance to Mullen Tunne...

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[Mill at] Spokane Falls. 19th cenrury stereoscope card.

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Crow Indian warriors. [Group posing in front of a teepee.]

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

East from Mullen Tunnel Grade [showing log cabin below].

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

Falls on Yuba River, near Cisco, Placer County.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 feet.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Great Salt Lake City. 19th century stereoscope card. Utah.

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The ampitheatre - Echo Canon. 19th century stereoscope card. Utah.

Utah stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembl... More

[High tressel, before tunnel no. 2.]

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High tressel, before tunnel no. 2.

Utah stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembl... More

Evening view, southern shore Donner Lake, Central Pacific Railroad.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

The Three Brothers A. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Dale Creek bridge. 19th century stereoscope card. Utah.

Utah stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembl... More

Nevada Fall. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

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Thousand mile tree, 1000 miles West of Omaha, looking west.

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"The Switzerland of America" from mountain road.

Pennsylvania stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Workmen's ranche [sic], on Alum Creek, Kansas, 7 miles east of Fort Ha...

Kansas stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

North dome of Washington Columns, near view.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

The Upper Cascades, Columbia River, from the Block House.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Foot of Metcalf Incline, ore train &c. near Clifton, Arizona. Copper m...

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Gates of Crawford Notch and P. & O.R.R.

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Dismal Pool & R.R., White Mtn. Notch.

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Frankenstein Trestle, P. & O.R.R., White Mts. Notch.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Looking across top of R.R. Bridge, Portage, N.Y., toward Depot.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pont St. Louis, Railroad bridge, France

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Pont sur la Bidassoa, Railroad bridge, France

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Street railroad construction, South from Howard St. New York City

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San Jose, California. [View of train and people.]

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Passenger train from Cap of Liberty, Yosemite Valley, Cal.

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Railroad above the clouds. - Sterescope Card, Colorado

Colorado stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

Donkey train, Ute Pass, near Manitou.

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Cotton in R.R. yard. Georgia Sterescope Card.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More