Image of an elevated landscape view of a long train of steam locomotives and yellow box cars crossing through a rural landscape with factory buildings and smokestacks in the distance and the front train crossing a bridge over a river in the foreground with four men walking on the bridge and two men walking on a boxcar roof; each car has two white flags labeled "W.S." and the cars have signs for Boston, Massachusetts, and grocery companies; the front locomotive has a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement and "Erie" written on the cab. Probable date based on year salt shipment was made; no printer identified on image. "Train shipped from / Worcester Salt Factory, Silver Springs, N.Y. / Jan. 6th 1897 via Erie, and N.Y. N.H. & H.R.R. / To New England points."--text, lower right margin. "Over 5,000,000 lbs. Worcester salt packed in 725,613 bags, 50,000 cartons, 7,000 large sacks / Enough to season 100,000,000 lbs. of butter. / The barrels piled end on end / would be over six miles high. / The bags laid in a row would extend 131 miles. / The largest single shipment of a manufactured commodity ever made."--text, upper right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.52 x 55.88 cm (30 1/8 x 22 in.)
Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Historical Worcester Salt Factory Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Documentary prints. (local) 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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