All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840 - 1955

Dixon Gallery and GardensScore 49.5

The railroad transformed modern existence in nineteenth-century America (and around the world). There was simply nothing like the power of railroads for transporting people and products between growing metropolitan centers in the eastern United States and ever westward across the continent. By the 1850s, American railways had effectively stitched together a still relatively new nation in a manner its citizens could…