- Collection:
- General Photographs Collection
- Title:
- Railroad Workers, circa 1865
- Date of Original:
- 1860/1870
- Subject:
- Labor
African American men
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Railroads - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Men help rebuild railroads after the end of the Civil War. Text from slide presentation: After the War, rebuilding those railroads provided work for many freed slaves who had left their rural homes to seek opportunities in cities. This was the case for early residents of Reynoldstown. Most of the men worked in railyards, as firemen or laying track as depicted here. Many of the women who lived in Reynoldstown were employed as domestic workers.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.069:0040_022
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or are copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- General Photographs
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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