A scarce supplement to An Empire Illustrated, a special issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, intended at last in part to promote real estate investment in Texas. This supplement consists mainly of an article entitled “The Lone Star State”—a narrative of a two months’ trip through Texas taken by.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
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.....
An interesting pamphlet promoting 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.....