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View from a river bank of a partially collapsed railroad bridge. Individuals can be seen walking across a secure railroad bridge at the same unknown location.

Spectators view a partially collapsed railroad bridge from an adjacent secure railroad bridge.

Photo caption: "Busy tho they may be, railroad men can usually spare a minute for the company photographer. This July 1935 view of the Springfield shop forces displays the workday apparel of the era."

The interior of a grand railroad dining car with fancy wooden chairs and tables.

Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen union respond to a railroad disaster.

Railroad employees perform maintenance on a section of the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway railroad tracks. Photo caption: "Midland has always believed that money invested in track maintenance is money well spent. Here a modern machine…

E.D. Townsend completed this partially-printed railroad pass inviting Dr. Charles Brown and his assistant to accompany Lincoln's remains from Washington to Springfield. The pass is printed on a black bordered card.

E.D. Townsend completed this partially-printed railroad pass inviting Thomas H. Pendel, an employee at the White House, to accompany Lincoln's remains from Washington to Springfield. The pass is printed on a black bordered card.

A stereoscopic view looks down a set of railroad tracks. The Bloomington railroad station is located to the right.

Works Progress Administration men raise the bulkhead on the Ohio Levee at Cairo.

Ralph A. Dunn, of DuQuoin, sits for a portrait. Dunn was a state senator and a representative from the state's 56th District to the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention.

Ralph Rollo Ward of Illinois, a graduate of Park College (1893), sits for a portrait.

Several cowboys participate in a ranch round up in the Davis Mountains while several cattle stand around the edge of the yard.

A colorized photograph of an eastward view of Randolph Street in downtown Chicago shows several carriages and carts lining the street as traffic builds closer to Lake Shore Drive.

Trolleys, horse-drawn carriages, and pedestrians fill Randolph Street in downtown Chicago. The image shows Randolph Street looking east towards Lake Shore Drive.

"Raw Recruits" lyrics depict Union Army recruits volunteering to fight. "Abraham's Daughter" depicts possible English role in supporting the Confederate States of America. "As sung with great applause by Bryant's Minstrels of New York," Cover depicts…

The headstones of Revolutionary War General John Rawalt, his wife Ann McMahon Rawalt, and their son Benjamin Rawalt are located in Lake View Cemetery, Penn Yan, New York.

Six men and one woman stand along a wall posing for a photograph.On verso: "L to Right: Unknown, Ray Ashley, Huggins, James Jesk, Natalie Johns[on], R. Martwick, Joe Allen."