An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising excursions to California, organized by a Los Angeles company and featuring the luxurious sleeping cars of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, as shown in the illustration. Printed partially—and fittingly—in orange ink, this broadside rallies would-be travelers to “the Land of Orange Groves,” listing.....
An unrecorded and colorful broadsheet promoting the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and associated western destinations. Exhorting viewers to read the text “carefully, especially if you contemplate a trip to any point west, northwest or southwest,” this broadside provides information on route options for those traveling.....
A fascinating unrecorded broadside for the Delaware and Hudson Canal listing its twenty-two rules, regulations and by-laws, illustrated with a wood-engraving of a canal boat being towed by a team of horses. Built between 1825 and 1829, the 108 mile-long Delaware and Hudson Canal was built to transport anthracite coal.....
A scarce broadside advertising travel via the Oregon Stage Line’s overland mail route from Oregon City to Sacramento, illustrated with a wood engraving by California artist William Keith (probably after his own drawing or painting) and his partner Harrison Eastman. The Oregon Stage Line’s mail route connected with daily stages.....
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An appealing and informative group of fifty-two billheads spanning four decades and documenting the extensive river transport of goods sold by a multitude of Ohio and West Virginia companies. These billheads record the activities of several packet shipping companies that operated on Ohio and West Virginia’s waterways (such as the.....
A scarce guide to the leisure destinations in the Boston Harbor region, including a map of the routes and a brief history of steamer travel between Boston and Hingham. “Fortunate, indeed, it is” for the poor and laboring classes of the Boston area that “there is an Elysium, and that.....