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Travellers' guide through the United States, showing the principal routes by railroad, steamboat, canal & stage
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Traveller's Map of the Middle, Northern, Eastern States and Canada. Showing all the Railroad, Steamboat, Canal and Principal Stage Routes
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Vignette of Niagara Falls and River. Vignette: Niagara River and surrounding country showing the proposed ship canal, Rail Roads, etc. Drawn by the late Captain W. G. Williams, U.S. Topographical Corps. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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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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Old colony line via Middleboro' and Woods Holl, to Oak Bluffs Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket : the famous seaside resorts of America ... Boston, June 23, 1877
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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.
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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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Map of the great air line route, Ohio & Mississippi Railway and connections
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Image of a map of a portion of the Eastern and Midwestern United States from as far west as Denver, Colorado, to the Atlantic Ocean, showing the railroad route of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and connecting lines; with a vignette of the East Bridge captioned "View of the bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis." and printed information about the bridge to the left of map; map verso contains panels with the fold-up map covers, promotional descriptions, timetables, a vignette of the East Bridge with a steamboat and horse-drawn wagons and pedestrians in the foreground, and a vignette of a side elevation of a Pullman drawing room and sleeping car.
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The Union Steamboat Company
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Image of the steamboat St. Louis sailing with a sailboat nearby and other vessels in the distance; American flag and pennants that read "St. Louis," "U.S. Co.," "Detroit," "Buffalo," "Portage," and "Marquette" stream in the wind; arched sign on side of vessel reads, "The Union Steamboat Co. Erie Railway Line."
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