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Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R

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Title: Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R
Creator: Chapin, John Reuben, 1823-1894, artist
Matthews-Northrup Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a broadside with promotional descriptions and timetables for the Lake Shore Route with a wood-engraved image in the upper center of two steam locomotive trains labeled "Lake Shore & Michn. Southn." and one with the number "317" on its firebox door, passing on tracks, with a waterscape view of boats, shoreline, lighthouse, and clouds with lightning in the background, and onlookers waving to the train in the lower right.
Probable date based on date in item text. "(August, 1885)"--text, bottom left margin. "Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works, Buffalo, N. Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Jno R. Chapin del"--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom left of image. "Bureau of Illustration Buffalo N.Y."--text, in stone, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 57.63 x cm (22 11/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_001140
405280
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1561
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Railroads
Railroads--Pictorial works
Railroad travel--Pictorial works
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company
Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Broadsides. (gmgpc)
Timetables. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Transportation
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Railroad
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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