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Bound for M. Hall's new store

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1871-1884
Call number: priJLC_HHD_002485
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Good news for all new cash store at Olive Green fresh goods at prices suited to the war times

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Image of a train locomotive at a depot with wooden boxes and barrels of a cargo delivery visible; men, women, and children hail the train as it pulls in and text bubbles show favorable comments on the new stock being delivered.

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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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The heroism of the New York police by Theodore Roosevelt

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Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine October 1897 issue; a policeman on a bicycle reaches for the bridle of a galloping horse pulling a carriage on a city street; a child holds onto a woman on top of the carriage, who is pulling tightly on the horse's reins.

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Black Valley rail road. Great central fast route

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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.

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

Visual Materials

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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Newport & Wickford Railroad. : Summer arrangement --- commencing Monday, June 15, 1885

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Image of a broadside containing a summer timetable for the Newport & Wickford Railroad with a wood engraved image in the upper center of a steam locomotive train pulling up next to the Wickford, Rhode Island, railroad station with waiting passengers; decorative border.

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Bound for M. Hall's new store

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