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Horn's railroad gazette
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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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Map of the Louisville and Great Southern Railroad line & connections
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Image of a map of the eastern United States showing the routes of the Great Southern railroad line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and connecting lines, with an inset map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, showing railroad connections; map verso contains panels with printed promotional descriptions and timetables; fold-up map.
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General map of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections
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Image of a map of most of the continental United States and part of Mexico showing the main routes and connecting lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with routes and railroad stations named; map verso contains 16 panels with railroad timetables, promotional descriptions, a vignette of the interior of a Pennsylvania Railroad Dining Car with well-dressed diners being served by African-American servers, a vignette of a Pullman sleeping car with passengers sitting in seats, including a woman reading and a girl, and inset with an image of a sleeping birth and a man shining shoes; folding map cover contains a vignette of a train on the Horseshoe Curve in the Allegheny Mountains and an American eagle with wings displayed standing on a shield with an "E Pluribus Unum" banner.
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Illinois Central Railroad: New Orleans through line. : No change of cars from Chicago to New Orleans
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Image of a map of the Midwestern and Eastern United States showing the railroad routes and connecting lines of the Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago, Illinois, outward to Yankton, South Dakota, Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana; map verso contains fold-up map covers and panels with promotional descriptions and timetables.
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Map of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and its leased lines
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Image of a map of the United States showing the railroad routes from Kansas to California and Mexico of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and connecting lines; map verso contains panels with railroad timetables, promotional descriptions, and fold-up map covers with images of a grenadier soldier holding a sword and charging across the country in a helmet with a locomotive head lamp and billowing smoke stack, and a view of a steam locomotive approaching on tracks inset among palm trees.
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Pennsylvania R. Road : the only route via Pittsburgh to Chicago St. Louis, Cincinnati, and the great west!
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Image of a broadside advertising the railroad lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad with promotional descriptions and timetables.
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