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Newport & Wickford Railroad. : Summer arrangement --- commencing Monday, June 15, 1885
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Boston & Albany Rail Road. : 1875. Time table commencing Monday, Nov. 1st. 1875
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Excursion trains July 4th : the following special trains on the Philadelphia and Erie R. R. will be run July 4th, 1876
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Image of a broadside with promotional text and timetable for the special train of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad running on July 4, 1876, to transport passengers from Corry, Pennsylvania, to the Grand Centennial Celebration in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Parker & Karns City Railroad and Karns City & Butler Railroad. : No. 3. Time Table
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Subseries C. Railroad (large size)
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This subseries contains 150 prints pertaining to railroads primarily in North America that date from the 1830s to the early 1910s. The images and texts of these items focus on varying aspects of railroads related to car and locomotive manufacturing, travel, administration, and geography. The items include maps; folding brochures; timetables; broadsides and posters; locomotive builder's prints (depicting the side elevation of locomotive exteriors), and view prints depicting landscapes and street scenes that feature trains, factory buildings, and passenger stations. The majority of materials in this series were produced primarily for railroad companies to advertise their routes and train schedules to potential passengers, but the collection also includes over thirty locomotive builder's prints issued by machine shops to advertise the design and construction of their locomotives, as well as five posters advertising railroad land for sale; two broadsides promoting the train-based shipping services of the Adams & Company Express in 1844 and 1850 (priJLC_TRAN_001193 and priJLC_TRAN_001194); a March 10, 1849, issue of Horn's Railroad Gazette (priJLC_TRAN_001085); a circa 1860 portrait print of New York Central Railroad mechanic Edward H. Jones (priJLC_TRAN_001164); an 1863 broadside with freight tariff rates of the Tioga, and Blossburg & Corning railroads (priJLC_TRAN_001144); the front page of the November 27, 1874, Daily Graphic newspaper containing a cartoon depicting rival railroad company presidents (priJLC_TRAN_001132); and an 1883 broadside listing the road repair foremen of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company (priJLC_TRAN_001165).
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Adams & Co's Express : new arrangement. The subscribers have obtained Express privileges from the following Rail Road Corporations
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Image of a broadside announcing the railroad stops included in the Adams and Company's Express shipping services on various lines between New York and New England with a top center wood engraved image of a steam locomotive passenger train moving on tracks through the countryside with laborers in the foreground; the railroad companies listed are the New-York and New Haven Railroad, the Housatonic Railroad, the Naugatuck Railroad, the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, and the New Haven Hartford & Springfield Railroad.
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Summer excursion tickets to the mountain and seashore resorts of Virginia on the Norfolk and Western Railroad June 1 to October 1
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Image of a woman in a high-neck dress holding an umbrella and a brochure titled "N & W RR VA Beach", and sitting on a trunk with labels for Hotel Roanoke, Lurray Caverns, and the Maple Shade Inn, next to a purse labeled "Ocean View"; image centered in a poster advertising the summer route of the Norfolk and Western Railroad; ornate border with flower design.
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