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

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Description: 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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Date: approximately 1882
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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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Bound for M. Hall's new store

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Image of an advertisement for M. Hall's store in WInthrop, Maine; a horse pulling a train with many cargo cars pulls up to the Winthrop station guided by a man holding the reins seated on the top of the first train car; people eagerly await the train's arrival at the station; large American flag flies above the second train car.

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Solid for Texas the iron mountain route is now running two solid trains from St. Louis to the South-West

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Image of a poster with an engraved map of part of the Southwestern United States from New Mexico to Mississippi, and north to Nebraska and Iowa, with railroad routes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and related lines depicted; map is centered in a poster containing promotional descriptions and timetable of the Iron Mountain Route.

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New map of our country from the Atlantic to Kansas and the Pacific ... 1871

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Image of a coast-to-coast map of the middle portion of the United States showing the railroad routes of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and connecting lines from Quincy, Illinois, to San Francisco, California; map verso contains fold-up map covers and panels with promotional descriptions and timetables.

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Map of the Charleston & Savannah RY. Savannah, Florida & Western RY. South Florida R.R. and all the routes operated by the peoples line of steamers known as the "plant system."

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Image of a map of parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida showing the routes of the Savannah, Florida & Western Railway and connecting lines; map verso contains panels with promotional descriptions and timetables and the fold-up map cover has an image of a crocodile wearing a suit jacket and polar bear wearing a monocle shaking hands on a beach with a train in the background.

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Philadelphia west, via Erie and Lehigh Valley " route. : In effect July, 1876

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Image of three maps related to railroad routes of the Erie Railway: a map in the upper left corner of the northeastern United States with railroad lines between New York City and the Great Lakes region; a map of Western Europe with steamship lines in the upper left; and a map of New York City in the lower left corner, with timetables and promotional descriptions on both the recto and verso; map verso also includes three vignettes of three ornately decorated interiors of a Pullman sleeping car, a dining car with well-dressed diners and African American waiters, and a drawing room car; fold-up map.

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

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