An attractive timetable for the “Maple Leaf Route” of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Includes schedules, rates, and general information, as well as a large map illustrating the Route through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, with a green maple leaf printed over the area of service. The map shows.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations, connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterised railroad advertising in this era, this attractive broadside promotes the numerous.....
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A rare financial statement of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. with a fine, large railroad map of the entirety of Illinois and portions of Missouri and Indiana. The Illinois Central Railroad Company was established in 1851 as the first land-grant railroad in America. Here the Directors present an end-of-the-year Report.....
A detailed record of Union battles and casualties prepared by the Illinois Central Railroad for the twenty-first annual encampment of the nation’s largest veteran’s organization. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was founded in 1866 in Illinois, around the pillars of charity, fraternity, and loyalty, and quickly became “the.....
A broadsheet promoting bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its first great construction push on the line, with a map at verso showing the projected rail line. Founded in 1865, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. only began breaking ground on construction in 1870 after receiving extensive financial.....
A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets, free baggage (up to 200 lbs.), and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on the.....