Official welcoming of King Friedrich August II. (1797–1854) and his second wife Maria Anna (1805–1877) at the Leipzig train station. Work on the first Saxon railway began in 1834 and ended in 1839. Upon completion, the railway connected Leipzig to the Saxon capital of Dresden. Wood engraving, 1838.
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