247 •(RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION--UNION PACIFIC)

An album with approximately 92 photographs documenting railway construction, trains, and the workers in Utah and Wyoming.

Seemingly made by a worker or employee, including well-composed photographs of trains on the move (several marked as Union Pacific Railroad), the tracks under construction, workers posing in front of enormous engines and on the tracks, the surrounding landscape, and images seemingly made from the trains themselves, all in the stark and beautiful landscape of the American West. Silver prints, the images measuring 4½x6½ inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, mounted recto/verso, some with identifying captions and the date, in pencil, on the page mounts. Oblong 8vo, plain cloth covers, lightly worn; tied binding. 1914

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