An unrecorded broadside advertising land for sale specifically to African American residents on Smith Street in the city of Mullins, South Carolina in the early-twentieth century. The broadside was printed at a time of seismic industrial changes in the American South. At the turn of the century even the rural.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising lots in a nascent frontier town in Indiana, assuring readers that this promotion is more than mere “puff.” This broadside advertises forty lots for sale in the new neighborhood of Charleston, Indiana, which was laid out in 1837 by Joseph P. Anthony, a carpenter by.....
A rare, amply illustrated folding brochure promoting a 1920s real estate development near Babylon, Long Island. Forget Brooklyn—this pamphlet, published by the E. A. White real estate organization, promotes its latest shoreland development near Babylon, Long Island. “No other suburban area of New York has more to offer…in easy accessibility.....
An unrecorded broadside advertising 100-acre lots of land for sale in the Saco River region in the District of Maine, two years before Maine became a state. Landowner Josiah Bachelder begins by announcing his recent purchase from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“whose warrantee he holds”) of a tract of land.....
A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow, Nebraska including a large map, produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882, Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the.....
A promotional brochure with a map serving as a guide to Alabama for prospective home-seekers in the early twentieth century. Picturing a “Typical Alabama Home” on the front panel, this pamphlet hails the state as one of the foremost in the Union in natural resources and thrift, inviting home seekers.....
A promotional pamphlet with a large folding map of lands boasting “the finest body of iron ore in Virginia,” and proposing a railroad through timber-rich and arable territory. The map depicts and advertises the lands of the Douthat Survey, lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Cowpasture River in western.....
A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
A very scarce publication issued by the Missouri Pacific Railway, promoting settlement in the newly-created Oklahoma Territory in general and the Cherokee Strip in particular shortly before the Cherokee Strip (a.k.a. “Cherokee Outlet”) land run of September 16th, 1893. As of the early 1890s the Missouri Pacific Railway operated lines.....