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Railroad trains in Mexico – Historic Reproduction

Railroad trains in Mexico, [ca. 1885] — historic photograph
Railroad trains in Mexico, [ca. 1885]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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Step back in time with Railroad trains in Mexico, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few subjects of the 1880s better captured the spread of the railroad than trains crossing Mexico, and this print by W.H. Jackson shows the locomotives and cars that the era's expansion depended on. Jackson, better known for his western landscapes, traveled in Mexico in the early 1880s, when American and British capital was building lines to link Mexico City with the United States border, a connection completed around 1884. The date of about 1885 comes from an older caption card and has not been verified, so the exact moment of the exposure remains uncertain.

Created / published[ca. 1885]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 915 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107740

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