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Kens, Paul. “The Crédit Mobilier Scandal and the Supreme Court: Corporate Power, Corporate Person, and Government Control in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 170–182.

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White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.

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Nast, Thomas. “Every Public Question with an Eye Only to the Public Good.” 1873. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-99135. https://www.loc.gov/item/90707119/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

“A Badly Used Bird.” 1873. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-68771. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004670946/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Waud, Alfred R. “Work on the Last Mile of the Pacific Railroad—Mingling of European with Asiatic Laborers.” 1869. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-127764. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001695508/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

“Completion of the Pacific Railroad—Meeting of Locomotives of the Union and Central Pacific Lines: The Engineers Shake Hands.” 1869. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-116354. https://www.loc.gov/item/96509622/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Koehler, O. “Anti-monopoly.” 1873. Lithograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-DIG-pga-03546. https://www.loc.gov/item/96515878/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Morgan, Matthew Somerville. “The American Juggernaut.” 1873. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. LC-USZ62-114825. https://www.loc.gov/item/95512262/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

“The Public Be —!” 1882. Wood engraving. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-DIG-ds-04516. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650089/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand. “The Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads.” 1879. Lithograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-DIG-ds-05068. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006681443/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand. “The Bosses of the Senate.” 1889. Lithograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZC4-494. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002718861/. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication.