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Dead river grand trunk railway. Broad gauge. Air line. Shortest route! Quickest time! Rum Policy, president. S.U.R.E. Death, superintendent

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Title: Dead river grand trunk railway. Broad gauge. Air line. Shortest route! Quickest time! Rum Policy, president. S.U.R.E. Death, superintendent
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864
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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 single-fold leaflet for the metaphorical Dead River Grand Trunk Railway encouraging temperance from R.H. McDonald & Co. of New York, New York, and San Francisco, California; train with "Rum" locomotive travels past "Destruction" on page 1; image of a girl trying to lead her alcoholic father out of a bar on page 2; advertising text on page 4 for Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters medicine.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company history; R.H. McDonald & Co. operated under that name from approximately 1864-1886.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 27.94 x 43.97 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_POL_003946
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4247
Language: English
Subject: Alcoholics--Pictorial works
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Pictorial works
Railroad trains--Pictorial works
Temperance
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
R.H. McDonald & Co
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Intaglio prints--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Politics & Social Issues
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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