Virtual Exhibit: Geography of Chinese Workers Building the Transcontinental Railroad: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Key Historic Sites

Transcontinental Railroad (Chinese Contributions)

Virtual Exhibit: Geography of Chinese Workers Building the Transcontinental Railroad: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Key Historic Sites

2018

Virtual Exhibit

The Chinese Workers in North America Project at Stanford University features an interactive map (2018) that highlights the role of Chinese workers in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad segment of the Transcontinental Railroad, which stretched from the Pacific Coast to Utah when it was completed. The website provides "virtual reproduction of the key historic sites" to help tell the story, which includes historical photographs and a plethora of source data in the footnotes.

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Chinese Workers in North America Project, Stanford University

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