Railroaded

This Andrew J. Russell photograph of the Laramie machine shops from the Southwest is a good example of an industrial island that the railroads had to create in order to maintain themselves. These shops were hotbeds of labor organizing. (Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints, and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)