Joint freight tariff of the Tioga, and Blossburg & Corning rail roads
Description
Image of a broadside containing columns and tables concerning tariffs on freight and related rules and regulations of the Tioga and Blossburg and Corning railroads.
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 timetable for branches of the Pennsylvania Rail Road running between Philipsburg, Tyrone, and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with printed special notices and a list of forty rules regarding the operation of trains; printed on blue paper.
Image of a broadside containing a timetable for east- and west-bound trains of the Parker & Karns City Railroad and Karns City & Butler Railroad between Parker, and Butler, Pennsylvania; verso contains printed "Train Rules" related to signals and the movement of trains, in two columns.
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 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.
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).
