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Traveller's companion and guide westward : Great Western & Mich'n Central Railway line and connections east and west, via Niagara Falls and Susp'n Bridge for Chicago, and all points west
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The only route via Niagara Falls & suspension bridge: for Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and all points west take the Great Western & Michigan Central R'y Line
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Image of an elevated landscape view of a steam locomotive and passenger train with baggage and sleeping cars crossing the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge between the bridge towers on the New York side of the gorge; with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage below the bridge and Witmer's Mill behind it, and Niagara Falls, the banks, and the covered enclosure of an incline railway in the distance; the locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and the cab and tender are labeled "207."
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Of the Michigan Central R.R. : between Chicago, Buffalo and Niagara Falls
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Image of a fragment of a poster advertising the Michigan Central Railroad with an image of a bearded king holding a fork and knife at a dining table with a black angel holding a plate hovering over his shoulder; verso contains a fragment of a print head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Maggie Mitchell; images pasted to a leaf of an account-book for the Toledo Wabash & Western Railway Company.
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Only central route west! Correct map of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway & Connections
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Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern and Eastern United States showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railway and connecting lines, centered with promotional text; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, promotional text, and timetables.
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Map of the Chicago & North-Western Railway and part of its connections
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This collection contains more than 730 printed items that relate to land-based modes of transportation primarily in the United States from the 1820s to the early 1900s. The bulk of the collection dates from 1840 to 1905 and consists largely of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations produced for or pertaining to the bicycle, carriage and wagon, railroad, and freight and passenger transport industries. The collection has 167 large-size items consisting of advertising cards, posters, broadsides, system maps, timetables, views, and other visual materials primarily produced for railroad companies, with additional items concerning vehicle and part manufacturers such as wheel works, carriage builders, bicycle manufacturers, and locomotive machine shops. Small-size items in the collection number more than 570 and are comprised mainly of advertising and promotional ephemera and business documents such as printed booklets, business cards, calendars, catalogs, envelopes, handbills, labels, leaflets, postcards, trade cards, and separated book and periodical illustrations, as well as stationery with printed billheads and letterheads filled out with manuscript or typewritten correspondence. The collection touches on topics of transportation, commerce and manufacturing, technology and engineering, travel and tourism, and geography. The images are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about the history of the American railroad, bicycle, and horse-drawn vehicle industries and the evolution of their advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of the development of printmaking techniques and trends, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints.
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Erie Railway. : The great centennial excursion route. The shortest line via Buffalo or Niagara Falls between New York or Philadelphia, and all points west
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Image of an eye-level landscape view of Niagara Falls from the rocky ledge of Prospect Point on the New York side of the Falls, with a woman, dog, and man looking over the gorge in the foreground and the waterfalls in the distance; image is centered with promotional description of railroad; verso contains text advertisement for New York Lithographing and Engraving Co.; decorative pink borders on recto and verso.
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