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View of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company's premises, : Aspinwall N. G
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Office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Aspinwall, Panama
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View of Culebra or the summit, the terminus of the Panama rail road In Dec. 1854
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California & Oregon Stage Company : carries Wells, Fargo & Cos. express and U.S. mail
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Image of an eye-level landscape view of Mount Shasta and the Cascade Range in Northern California, as seen in the distance from a mountain pass in a forested area with trees, rocks, a stream, and, in the center foreground, a red "California & Oregon Stage Company U.S. Mail" stagecoach pulled by six horses and crowded with male and female passengers both in the coach and riding on its roof; one Chinese passenger has a queue hairstyle.
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Hamburg American Packet Company. Imperial German U.S. mail steamships
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The Jay T. Last collection of maritime prints and ephemera contains approximately 1,150 printed items that pertain to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses in the United States primarily dating from the second half of the 19th century. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations produced for or relevant to steamship companies, sailing vessels, shipping entities, passenger lines, and related businesses and publications.The collection has more than 55 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic and engraved prints of ships, certificates and contracts, and advertising materials for passenger and shipping routes. Small-size items in the collection number approximately 1,100 and are comprised mainly of advertising and promotional ephemera and business documents. The vast majority of these items are bills of lading and steamship passes, but the collection also has trade cards, timetables, booklets, directory ads, menus, passenger lists, postcards, handbills, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. Subjects addressed within the collection include commerce, advertising, technology and engineering, and tourism as related to river, lake, and ocean travel mostly in the United States. The images are primarily promotional and provide information about the history of passenger travel and commercial shipping, as well as the advertising strategies employed by these industries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of visual culture and printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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"The Fast Mail." : Scene of catching and delivering the mails on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
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Image of an eye-level perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, a dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer behind the cab labeled "J.H. Devereux", the number "317" written on the locomotive, and a Masonic logo on the smoke-box door.
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The mail carrier of 100 years ago. ; The flight of the fast mail on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. The popular passenger route between the east and west
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