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Farming lands above 1,500,000 acres are offered for sale, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, by the Illinois Central Rail Road Co

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Title: Farming lands above 1,500,000 acres are offered for sale, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, by the Illinois Central Rail Road Co
Alternative Title: For St. Louis and Cairo Illinois Central Rail Road : two daily express trains leave the Central Union Depot ...
Creator: Thomas & Lathrops, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
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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 poster with two notices advertising land sales and routes of the Illinois Central Railroad with a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive and train nearing a bridge, with a tree in the foreground and river with boat and hills in the background.
Probable date based on publication date of pamphlet with similar title: Illinois Central Railroad Company. The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards ... Chicago, Illinois Central Rail road office, 1857. "Chromotype Press of Thomas & Lathrops, Buffalo"--text, bottom center border. "Please post in a conspicuous place"--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 73.66 x 55.4 cm (29 x 21 13/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_001064
402478
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1451
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Railroads
Railroad land grants
Railroads--Pictorial works
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Relief prints--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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