A spread from a Burlington Route brochure promoting train travel as a life-changing adventure.
Archival Gems
Brochure: Through the American Wonderland: The Pacific Northwest, 1923
Photograph: Canal río San Francisco, 1930
In addition to depicting a phase of the channelization works of the San Francisco River, this image shows Bogotá’s urban landscape, with the Eastern Mountains in the background and trees such as eucalyptus, pines and cypress along the river.
Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
Brochure: Burlington Vista-Domes, 1955
A Burlington Route brochure promoting the new “Vista-Dome” coaches in 1955.
Photograph: Tequendama Falls, n.d.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
Map: Lands of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska in the Great Republican Valley, 1879
Map of the “Great Republican Valley” showing Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road lands for sale in Nebraska (1879).
Photograph: Dome on Runit Island
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
Photograph: Princesses Against Plutonium, Nuclear Test Site, Nevada, 1988
This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.