10 1/2 x 13 in. album, gilt title on cover, "Picturesque Scenery and Industrial Views on the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route." Identified on cover to the "Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, NC, Compliments of H.C. Townsend, Gen'l. Pass'r and Ticket Agent, St. Louis." Contains approx. 36 photographs, approx. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in., mounted recto/verso on album pages. Each with title written in the negative. Views of various locations throughout Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Arkansas are enclosed, including Sedalia, Sweet Springs, Kansas City, Joplin, Pertle Spring, McAllister Springs, Pleasant Hill, Arcadia, Carthage, and Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as Cawker and Leavenworth, Kansas, Omaha, Nebraska, and Hot Springs, Fort Smith, and Ozark Mountains, Arkansas.

Highlighted scenes include: Large group of men, some on horse-drawn carts, in front of a "Central of Georgia" railway car, with an African American man in the foreground. -- African Americans picking cotton in Arkansas Valley, Arkansas. -- A drove of jersey cattle, Arcadia, Missouri. -- Hotel at McAllister Springs, Missouri, with a young African American male subject seated in the foreground. -- Breakfast in a hunter's camp near Hot Springs, Arkansas.