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Lot 604

[TRANSPORTATION] -- [CIVIL WAR]. A group of 4 broadsides involving travel by toll road and railroad, highlighted by: A Colossal Gathering of Veterans. Great Day at Silver Lake Chautauqua Assembly.
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[TRANSPORTATION] -- [CIVIL WAR]. A group of 4 broadsides involving travel by toll road and railroad, highlighted by: A Colossal Gathering of Veterans. Great Day at Silver Lake Chautauqua Assembly.
 Erie Railway. Buffalo, NY: Matthews, Northrup & Co., 24 July 1888.

11 x 22 in. printed broadside (minor toning, small pinholes at corners); framed to 15 x 26 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by J.O. Prescott and 3 other officials. With illustration of a soldier blaring a trumpet at top left.

[With:] H.P. & F.R.R. New Freight Line between Providence and New York via Norwich Line Steamers and H.P. & F.R.R. N.p.: N.p., April 1878. Visible 9 1/2 x 17 in. printed broadside, framed (possibly trimmed, marginal tears); framed to 11 3/4 x 21 2/4 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Assistant Superintendent J.T. McManus.

[With:] Table of Distances, by the shortest practicable Railroad routes, compiled from "Appleton's Railroad Guide," and other sources. Washington, D.C.: Quartermaster General's Office, 27 October 1865. 19 5/8 x 31 7/8 in (marginal chipping, short separations and minor soil along original folds); framed to 28 x 40 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Quartermaster General, Bvt. Major General M.C. Meigs. 

[Also with:] Rates of Toll on the Birmingham and Pontiac Plank Road! [Michigan]: N.p., n.d. 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. printed broadside on cardstock (partially trimmed, brown staining, minor rubbing at margins); framed to 23 x 19 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by G.V.N. Lothrop and O. Poppleton, president and secretary respectively. Includes rates of tolls based on number of animals, and with the copy of sections 30, 41, and 47 of Michigan legislation related to tolls. RARE: no other copies located. 

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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