"Westward the Course of Empire takes it Way." Laying track, 300 miles west of Missouri River, 19th October, 1867.

1867 Citation Source image

Plate: No. 39

Photograph

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Place

Kansas North and Central America United States

Subject

Railroad construction workers Railroad construction & maintenance Railroads Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division

Genre

Albumen prints Photographs photograph Still image

belongs_to

Photographs of the American West

created_by

Gardner, Alexander