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The battle of the rival routes and railroads

Description: Image of the front page of the November 27, 1874, issue of the Daily Graphic newspaper containing a political cartoon depicting three steam locomotives, ridden by Erie Railroad president Hugh Jewett, New York Central Railroad president Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Pennsylvania Railroad president Thomas A. Scott, sinking in a lake while a fourth steam locomotive ridden by Baltimore & Railroad president John Garrett runs on a track in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 27 November 1874
Call number: priJLC_TRAN_001132
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Great western and south western U.S. Mail Route. New York and Erie broad gauge railroad ... (New York, May, 1855.)

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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.

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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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The old reliable Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad the pioneer route to the west

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Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern and Eastern United States showing the routes of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Short Line and connecting lines in the lower half of a sheet, and a side view of a steam locomotive passenger train at night moving on tracks illuminated by the train's headlamp, captioned "The New Electric Light" in the upper half of the sheet; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, timetables, and a half-page image of a cross-section of the interior of a "Reclining Chair Car" filled with passengers sitting in the train, playing cards, and in the car's washrooms.

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Newport & Wickford Railroad. : Summer arrangement --- commencing Monday, June 15, 1885

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Image of a broadside containing a summer timetable for the Newport & Wickford Railroad with a wood engraved image in the upper center of a steam locomotive train pulling up next to the Wickford, Rhode Island, railroad station with waiting passengers; decorative border.

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Map of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and its leased lines

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Image of a map of the United States showing the railroad routes from Kansas to California and Mexico of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and connecting lines; map verso contains panels with railroad timetables, promotional descriptions, and fold-up map covers with images of a grenadier soldier holding a sword and charging across the country in a helmet with a locomotive head lamp and billowing smoke stack, and a view of a steam locomotive approaching on tracks inset among palm trees.

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Great Eastern rail road route over Massachusetts western rail road, from Albany or Troy for Boston

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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.

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The battle of the rival routes and railroads

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