American railroad scene: snowbound – Historic Print
![American railroad scene: snowbound, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1871. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a7/a70551854649-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of American railroad scene: snowbound. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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American railroad scene: snowbound
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Snow buries a rail line in this 1871 Currier & Ives lithograph, where a locomotive and its cars labor through a drift while the surrounding countryside lies stilled under white. The firm, based in New York, turned out thousands of such scenes for a mass market, and its railroad pictures from the 1870s often showed the trains as heroic and dependable even in bad weather. Winter travel was a real hazard in that era, when snowdrifts could halt service for days, so the print speaks to both the romance and the struggle of the rails. Its catalog number in the Gale Research raisonné places it among the firm's documented works of the decade.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1871. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0201. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,164 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175291 |
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