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Unknown [Portrait of railroad workers]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09884 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1900s Pagination: 1 silver gelatin photograph ; 16.2 x 21.4 cm. Order a Copy

One undated silver gelatin photgraph mounted on board. Image is of 17 railroad workers, including 14 African American men with tools, posing on tracks.

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