Andrew J. Russell

In the late 1860s, photographer Andrew J. Russell traveled west to document the construction of the Union Pacific Railway in Wyoming and Utah, including the famous “golden spike” moment on May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were joined in Promontory, Utah, creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Russell captured images of the railway construction as well as the wide-open landscape of the American West and its inhabitants.

A gathering of Shoshone Indians

 

East and West shaking hands at laying last rail. The ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, 

marking the placement of the “golden spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah.

 

Members of the Rocky Mountain Glee Club, 1864-1869

 

Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake Valley. The man is surrounded by 

his family of wives and children, enjoying the noonday rest.

 

Officers of the Union Pacific Railroad at the laying of 

the last rail at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869

 

Source: The Atlantic

Walter McClintock

Gives-To-The-Sun on travois horse with White Calf immediately in front

  

Indian man, woman, and young child in ceremonial dress

  

 Indian woman standing at cooking tripod near 

water with two young Indian girls at her left

  

North Piegan women

  

Two Indian girls seated in field of flowers

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Augustine H. Folsom

 Gov. Gardner House, Dorchester, Stoughton St

  

 Old Abraham French House, "Peter Parley's" 

old house, Parley Vale, Jamaica Plain

  

 Old Calvin B. Farmer House, corner of Pynchon and Roxbury Sts

  

 Old Dunbar House, corner of Cliff and Washington Sts, ca. 1870

  

Old Williams Place, Elm Hill, Roxbury, ca. 1870

 

Source: Boston Public Library

Frank Rinehart

 Band of Sioux warriors

  

 Fox of Iowa, Bead Work

  

 Hattie Tom, Chiricahua Apache

  

 In Summer, Kiowa

  

Kiowas, 1898

Frank B. Rodolph Collection

 Behind the Scenes (six ladies and three gentlemen, and Chinese cook)

  

 Lawn tennis courts

  

 Our Chowder Party, August 30, 1885

  

 Residence near foothills

  

Woodward's residence, corner of 10th and Clay Street, Oakland, California, 1886

 

Source: California Digital Library

Vintage Ireland

 Sion Lodge, Ferrybank, Waterford. The clergyman pictured had baptised the 

two babies who are resplendent in their christening robes, ca. 1895

  

 Some of the local fishing community at Ardara, Co. Donegal, ca. 1897

  

 Tea House, Glencar, Co. Leitrim, ca 1890

   

Thatched cottage, ca. 1900

 

 The Boys of Ballydehob, ca. 1900

 

Source: National Library of Ireland

Vintage Maine

 Emmie Fountain seated on the ledges at Ogier Point, Camden in 1900

  

Minnie Babb, Emma Babb & Margaret, July 8, 1898

  

Mothers & daughters, September 1899

  

 Summer house group: Lizzie, Myrtle French, 

Teresa?, Grace, & Margaret, June 24, 1898

  

Woman walking along Turnpike Drive (now Rt. 52) in October 1899. 

She is carrying a camera and has a dog and bicycle with her.

 

Source: Camden Public Library

Matthew Brady

 Doctor Mary Walker

  

 Mrs. M. Hogan

  

Probably Lucille Western, actress, ca. 1863

Walter McClintock

 Blackfeet women by the Cutbank River

  

Brave Dogs smoking before a feast at the Eagle Tipi

  

 Grass dancers

 

 Group of tipis with Indians seated and standing around large skin

  

Heavens Peak with tipis

 

Puppy licking young Indian girl seated in small tipi

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Horace Mann School for the Deaf

These photos were taken by Augustine H. Folsom in 1892.

 Class in type-setting

  

 Conversation and writing

   

 Earliest lesson in speech

  

 Language lesson in a primary class

  

 Reading lesson in a grammar class

  

 

 The class in dress-making

 

 The whole school

 

Source: Boston Public Library