EVB2937769: Men working at a Siphon recorder for receiving cable messages in the Office of the Commercial Cable Company, at Broad Street, New York. It automatically recorded the telegraph message as a wiggling ink line on a roll of paper tape, for a trained reader to de-code into readable text / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936838: Emigrants on the open deck of an immigrant steamship to Canada, site land after at least two weeks at sea. The ship, GANGES, carried 761 people who paid 3 British pounds for their passage. People on deck engage in play, music, talk, smoking and looking through telescopes. April-May, 1871 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937883: Chinese prospectors washing gold in a sluice box placed in the stream to channel water flown. Gold-bearing soil is placed at the top of the box, which is lined with horizontal riffles that cause the gold to drop out of flowing liquid. 1871 photo by William Henry Jackson, probably taken in Colorado, Nevada or Arizona, during the Wheeler expedition / Bridgeman Images