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Boston & Albany R. R. Co. : Foremen of road repairs
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Boston & Albany Rail Road. : 1875. Time table commencing Monday, Nov. 1st. 1875
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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.
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Albany City Fire Insurance Co
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Image of an advertisement for Albany City Fire Insurance Company of Albany, New York; dozens of firefighters and several fire engines hurry around a corner in the commercial district of Albany towards a large fire blazing along the horizon at left; businesses include "Sprague Bookseller & Stationer," "L. Pruyn & Son Hardware," "Weed & Kingsley Law Office," "Hastings News Depot," "Morse Telegraph Office," "Frothingham's Druggists | Hatter," and "Albany City Fire Insurance Co." at the corner of State Street and Broadway; pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles dodge the firefighters or look on in the busy streets; elaborate frame decorative border with list of directors and officers.
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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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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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Bald Eagle Valley and Tyrone & Clearfield branches, Pennsylvania Rail Road. : Schedule no. 4. Pennsylvania Rail Road Company passenger and freight trains
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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.
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Adams & Co's American package express
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Image of a broadside advertising the American Package Express of Adams & Co's with a lithographed image captioned "View of the Great Western & New-York Depot, at South Cove, Boston" in the upper part of sheet depicting an eye-level landscape view of a railroad terminal, two trains, and surrounding buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, with two horse-drawn wagons in the foreground including one labeled "Mail."
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