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Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. : For Peoria, Rock Island, Davenport, Iowa City, Des Moines
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Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y. : For all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado
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Image of a poster with promotional text and timetable for the Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center wood engraved image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad lines and a wood engraved vignette in the lower part of the poster of a cross section of the "Palace Dining Car" showing the interior of the car with passengers eating and being served by African-American waiters.
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Take the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific R.R for Peoria, Des Moines, Council Bluffs
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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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Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y. : The tourists and sportsman's favorite route
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Image of a poster advertising the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad divided into three panels with a center engraved image of a steam locomotive, tender, and U.S. Mail car on tracks beside a lake in the countryside, with a centered logo of a horseshoe labeled "Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Ry. / They strike the right road." The top and bottom panels have silhouette images of individuals carrying items related to tourist activities including mining, hunting, and fishing, with a lower caption, "Happy return of the pilgrims."
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Free chair cars. on the limited fast express trains via the Great Rock Island route
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Image of a poster advertising a route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center image of a man reclining in a railroad passenger car in a chair with an extended leg rest and gazing out the window at clouds containing a small image of a soldier and the writing, "A man"; the car's rug has the monogram "CRP."
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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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Evansville route : Evansville and Terre Haute R.R. Chicago and Eastern Illinois R. R. : to the north
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Image of a poster advertising the Evansville Route with a wood-engraved center image of an elevated landscape view of the Ohio River and Henderson Bridge near Evansville, Indiana, with a steam locomotive train crossing the bridge and steamboats including one labeled the "Ellen N." in the river; measurements of the bridge in the lower left.
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