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Black Valley rail road. Great central fast route

Description: Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Alcohol" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach lining in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at bottom left and right; train stops at destinations "Sippington" through to "Destruction" at left and right of image.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1863
Call number: priJLC_POL_003975
Creator: Last, Jay T

Black Valley railroad

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Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Distillery" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at left and right center of print.

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Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

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Image of a series of vignettes advocating temperance; scenes illustrating the adverse effects of alcohol and tobacco are contrasted with scenes showing the benefits of a life without; train at center labeled "Gin Fiend" heads toward "Tobacco Land" with demons around it and the devil beckoning from a hole in the ground, torch in hand; images of angels interspersed throughout; allegorical women at left and right symbolizing "Truth" and "Temperance."

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View of the Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Susquehannah River 5 miles above Harrisburg

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Image of a landscape view of the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; barge in canal next to river at left; workers and train in foreground.

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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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Battle of The Weldon Rail-Road August 21st 1864

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Image of Union and Confederate armies engaged along railroad tracks in the Battle of the Weldon Railroad (Battle of Globe Tavern) near Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864 during the American Civil War; central image shows firing line with cannons, with cavalry and horse drawn carts behind the lines; vignettes at top left and right captioned "August 18th" and "August 19th" show the progression of the battle.

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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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Black Valley rail road. Great central fast route

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