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Image of a broadside with text advertising the routes of the New York and Erie Railroad; wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, tender, and cars in a rural setting centered in the upper half of the poster and a wood-engraved vignette of a steamship centered in the lower half of the poster.
Image of a broadside advertising the route of the Great Eastern Railroad with a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and a freight car and passenger car centered in the upper third of the poster; decorated border.
Image of a broadside with promotional text and timetables for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad with a small wood engraved vignette of a passenger train with a steam locomotive, tender, and cars moving through a rural landscape, centered in the upper part of the poster.
Image of a broadside with promotional text about the freight car service of the Diamond Line Transit Co., with a wood engraved image of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and freight cars centered in the upper third of the poster.
Image of a timetable for the Boston & Albany Railroad with a wood-engraved vignette centered in the upper third of the broadside of a steam locomotive, with 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, U.S. Mail and baggage car, and four passenger cars moving through a rural landscape.
Image of a poster advertising the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad with a centered circular wood-engraved vignette of the Royal Gorge with a railroad track surrounded by mountains, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Image of a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive and tender labeled "Old Colony" on railroad tracks next to a dock with waiting passengers and a horse-drawn wagon, and a sailboat and steamboat, the Island Home, in the water, centered in a broadside with text promoting the Old Colony Railroad route to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with printed timetables and promotional text, and a bottom center wood-engraved map of New England with railroad routes.
