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Great Eastern rail road route over Massachusetts western rail road, from Albany or Troy for Boston

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Title: Great Eastern rail road route over Massachusetts western rail road, from Albany or Troy for Boston
Creator: Daily Argus Chromotype Press, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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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 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.
Probable date based on item text. "Office Western Rail Road Corporation, / Springfield, Mass., 1856"--text, bottom center. "Daily Argus Chromotype Press, Springfield, Mass."--text, bottom center. "Thos. L Greene, Agent, Albany,"--text, bottom left. "Henry Gray, Sup't.--text, bottom right.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 68.9 x 53.82 cm (27 1/8 x 21 3/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_001095
402501
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1538
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Railroads
Railroads--Pictorial works
Western Rail-Road Corporation
Relief prints--1850-1900. (gmgpc)
Broadsides. (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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