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Across the continent - The Frank Leslie excursion to the Pacific - Scenes of frontier life in Cheyenne: 1. A party of gold miners starting for the Black Hills; 2. The Union Pacific R.R. Depot, Cheyenne; 3. Old Zip Coon [man playing fiddle]; 4. Scene in front of the Inter-Ocean Hotel

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Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 45, no. 1149 (1877 Oct. 6), pp. 72-73.

Caption card tracings: West Towns...; Stage coaches; Mines... GOld; Wyo.; Shelf.

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label_outline Explore Zip, Union Pacific, Fiddle

Star orphans excursion, Aug. 1923

Rail Labor-Management Committee Meets. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. The president's special Committee of Rail Labor and Management representatives met today to discuss proposed recommendations for legislative aid to the Rail Industry. A spokesman for the Committee said 'they hoped to have recommendations ready for the President before Congress meets in January' left to right. M.W. Clement, Pres. of the Penna. R.R., George Harrison, Chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Assoc., Carl R. Gray, Vice Chairman of the Union Pacific., B.M. Jewell, Pres. of the Railway Employees Department of the A.F. of L., Ernest E. Norris, Pres. of the Southern, R.R., D.B. Robertson Head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive, Firemen, and Enginemen, 11/7/38

Grand excursion, lancer's - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

Star orphans excursion, Aug. 1923

Prairie settlement - Mr. Coon, Kearney, Nebraska

De ole plantation coon - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instruments, Galax, Virginia Includes band leader, Doc Davis, with autoharp; Uncle Alex Dunford with fiddle; Crockett Ward with fiddle; Wade Ward with banjo; Fields Ward with guitar]

New coon in town - Public domain American sheet music

Grand excursion, lancer's - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

De coon dinner - Public domain American sheet music

New coon in town - Public domain American sheet music

Excursion waltz - Public domain American sheet music

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continent frank leslie excursion frank leslie excursion pacific scenes frontier life frontier life cheyenne party gold miners gold miners black hills black hills union union pacific r depot old zip coon old zip coon man fiddle front inter ocean hotel union pacific railroad 19th century union pacific old zip coon illustrations