Old colony line via Middleboro' and Woods Holl, to Oak Bluffs Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket : the famous seaside resorts of America ... Boston, June 23, 1877
Creator
Kilburn, Samuel Smith, artist Geo. C. Rand & Avery, artist
Image of a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive and tender labeled "Old Colony" on railroad tracks next to a dock with waiting passengers and a horse-drawn wagon, and a sailboat and steamboat, the Island Home, in the water, centered in a broadside with text promoting the Old Colony Railroad route to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with printed timetables and promotional text, and a bottom center wood-engraved map of New England with railroad routes. Probable date based on item title. Probable full name of artist supplied by cataloger. "Kilburn"--text, artist's signature in stone, lower left of center image. "J.R. Kendrick / Supt. O.C.R.R."--text, bottom right "Rand & Avery, Boston"--text (obscured), bottom right of map.
Type
image
Extent
1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 65.72 x 45.72 cm (25 7/8 x 18 in.)
Advertising--Railroads Advertising--Transportation Boats and boating--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Railroads--United States--Maps Steamboats--Pictorial works Tourism--Pictorial works Old Colony Railroad Company Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Broadsides. (gmgpc) Maps. (gmgpc) Timetables. (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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