The mail carrier of 100 years ago. ; The flight of the fast mail on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. The popular passenger route between the east and west
Creator
Clay, Cosack & Co., printer Burch, J. A. (copyright claimant), publisher
Image of an eye-level close-up perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a cab labeled "J.H. Devereux," and the number "317" written on the locomotive; a smaller upper image of an eye-level landscape view depicting an 18th century rural scene with a man on horseback on a plank road in the foreground, and a log cabin and family behind with a man chopping wood, a woman, child, and a boy drinking water from a trough. "'The Fast Mail' Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1875, by J.A. Burch in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom left margin. "Clay, Cosack & Co. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Union Depots, No Ferry Transfers, No Delay"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.36 x 55.56 cm (30 1/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Advertising--Railroads Children--Pictorial works Historic buildings--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Postal Service--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Railway mail service--United States--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works Historical Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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