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Rand, McNally & Co.'s Western Railway guide, published monthly, at 49, 51 and 53 Clark Street, Chicago

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Description: Image of a map of railroad routes and stations in the Mid West, Great Lakes Region, and the Southern United States; map verso contains multiple advertisements with eight vignettes including images of a horse-drawn farming machine and man in a field for the Chicago Scraper & Ditcher Company, images of fire extinguishers and engines for the Babcock Fire Extinguisher, including a view of a man in a parlor fighting a fire with an extinguisher attached to his back; an egg crate for the Union Egg Carrier Company, and a view of a wilderness area with a person walking on a path, with an ivy decoration for Rand McNally and Co.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1871
Call number: priJLC_TRAN_001057
Creator: Last, Jay T

Rand, McNally & Co.'s California

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Image of a map of California with railroad routes shown; inset in the bottom left corner of Southern California from Los Angeles to San Diego and an inset in the upper right corner of the San Francisco area; reference key for 37 railroads printed in red and titled "California Railroads." A key of "California. / Chief Cities" with populations printed in left margin.

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Cowing & Gleason Mfg. Co., Limited. Successors to Cowing & Co., established 1840. : Seneca Falls, N.Y. New York Chicago. St. Louis

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a red-and-green painted hook and ladder truck with firefighting equipment including ladders, hand buckets, a fire extinguisher, lanterns, an ax, and rope.

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Map of the Chicago & North-Western Railway and part of its connections

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Image of a wood engraved map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad routes of the Chicago & North-Western Railway and connecting lines from Chicago, Illinois, westward, with promotional descriptions and timetables; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, additional timetables, and promotional text, with a vignette of a side elevation of a Pullman drawing room and sleeping car.

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Imperial egg food

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Image of an advertisement for Imperial egg food for poultry; Imperial egg food is delivered by train and given to chicken at top right, who lay copious amounts of eggs that are gathered and packed into egg crates by African American workers; well-dressed African American man with a cane and top hat gestures to the results of the egg food at left accompanied by advertising text; chicken pictured with large basket of eggs and pyramid of eggs at bottom left.

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The short line across the continent. : Map of the great central route between the Atlantic and Pacific : Michigan Central and Great Western Railways

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Image of a map of a portion of the Eastern United States from as far west as Omaha, Nebraska, showing railroad routes of the Michigan Central and Great Western Railroad and connecting lines, with a vignette in the lower left corner of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and an inset map in the lower right corner of the Western United States showing railroad routes and titled, "Map between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean"; map verso contains panels with the fold-up map covers, promotional descriptions including an image of a freight car for the Great Central Route's Blue Line, and timetables.

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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Valley route to the great north-west

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Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad routes of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and connecting lines centered and bordered with promotional text, lists of railway stations, and six landscape vignettes captioned "Fort Snelling, Minn."; Dells of the Wisconsin. - Inkstand & Sugar Bowl."; "Templar Rock, Lake Pepin."; Jaws of the Dells."; "The Maiden's Rock, on Lake Pepin." with an image of a Native American in a headdress in the foreground overlooking a railroad train and steamboats; and "Vizor Ledge, east of Standing Rock."; map verso contains panels with promotional text, timetables, a "Map of the Business Districts of Chicago" and two vignettes on the fold-up map cover captioned, "Dells of the Wisconsin. - Lone Rock from Below." and "Dells of Wisconsin. - Inkstand and Sugar Bowl."

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