Image of an eye-level perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, a 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, an engineer behind the cab labeled "J.H. Devereux", the number "317" written on the locomotive, and a Masonic logo on the smoke-box door. Item copyrighted by J.A. Burch, the General Eastern Passenger Agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. "'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.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 62.07 x 55.72 cm (24 7/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Railroads--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Railway mail service--United States--Pictorial works Postal Service--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works 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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