1913 Southern Pacific Railroad illustrated promotional travel guide to New Orleans— “The Winter capital of America.” The guidebook describes the city’s public attractions and buildings..... Read More about Winter in New Orleans, Season 1913-1914
This Illinois railroad was incorporated on August 9, 1904. Its immediate purpose was to operate a short-line railroad carrying passengers and freight from Springfield to..... Read More about 1904 Springfield and Eastern Railroad of Illinois and New Jersey Articles and Certificate of...
![Stock Certificate:] Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, Incorporated under the...](/pictures/thumb/3729833_1.jpg?v=1604510047)
From the Cherokees to the Bostonians… Two hundred shares issued in 1869, a few months after the railroad opened its tracks from Kansas City to..... Read More about Stock Certificate:] Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, Incorporated under the...
![Stock Certificate:] Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, Incorporated under the...](/pictures/thumb/3729437_1.jpg?v=1598301680)
Two hundred shares issued in 1869, a few months after the railroad opened its tracks from Kansas City to Olathe. The Missouri River, Fort Scott..... Read More about Stock Certificate:] Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, Incorporated under the...
![Stock Certificate:] Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Company, Incorporated by The State...](/pictures/thumb/3729436_1.jpg?v=1598301680)
Fifty shares issued in 1871, the year of this railroad line’s completion. “The Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company (LL&G RR Co.), headquartered just southwest..... Read More about Stock Certificate:] Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Company, Incorporated by The...
Unrecorded. Voting Rights broadside mobilizing Chicagoans to rally in Jackson, Mississippi with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the “Meredith Mississippi March” in support of..... Read More about We Can’t Wait. Join Meredith Mississippi March. Meet! Mobilize! March! “A Sunday with Martin...
![Great White Fleet] Imperial Japanese Government Railways Special Ticket Issued in Honor of the...](/pictures/thumb/3729181_1.jpg?v=1590518356)
Chromolithographic “Special Ticket” for a rail excursion issued to American sailors of the Great White Fleet during their visit to Japan in 1908. The colorful..... Read More about Great White Fleet] Imperial Japanese Government Railways Special Ticket Issued in Honor of the...
![Cook’s Tours in Florida. [With Map]. Thos. Cook, Tourist Son, Excursion Agents](/pictures/thumb/3727715_1.jpg?v=1579733578)
Florida tourist railroad brochure with suggested travel routes with one way and round trip prices; unfolds to reveal full sheet map entitled “Cook’s Tourist Map..... Read More about Cook’s Tours in Florida. [With Map
Rare fold-out pocket time table providing the schedule of trains, to and from Savannah, Gainesville, Chattahoochee and Albany; and also trains between Savannah and Jacksonville..... Read More about Official Pocket Time Table of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. Showing Arrangement of...
Full Howes: “As Consulting Engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad, Silas Seymour describes his trip with Jessie Williams, Government Director, and Gen. Dodge, in 1866..... Read More about Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains,...
![1940 Lionel Train Catalog]. The Lionel Corporation](/pictures/thumb/3727608_1.jpg?v=1537378144)
Colorful trade catalog for Lionel trains issued by The Lionel Corporation, makers of the iconic American children’s toy railroad system. This pre-WWII catalog touts the..... Read More about 1940 Lionel Train Catalog
![1952 Lionel Train Catalog]. The Lionel Corporation](/pictures/thumb/3727607_1.jpg?v=1537378144)
Colorful trade catalog for Lionel trains issued by The Lionel Corporation, makers of the iconic American children’s toy railroad system. Highlights of this post-WWII catalog..... Read More about 1952 Lionel Train Catalog
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In..... Read More about Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883
The Boston & Worcester Rail Road Line was the first passenger train in New England, offering full service in 1835. Here, in 1859, on this..... Read More about Great Western Route. 1859. Boston & Worcester & Western Rail Road Line
![Professional Thieves and the Detective [Autographed (?) by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan Pinkerton,...](/pictures/thumb/3726642_1.jpg?v=1596660148)
Autobiography and crime memoir by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted Scottish-American private detective and spy. This copy has a presentation inscription (possibly secretarial) from Pinkerton’s son..... Read More about Professional Thieves and the Detective [Autographed (?) by Robert A. Pinkerton
![The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives [Autographed (?) by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan...](/pictures/thumb/3726640_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives is a fictionalized crime detection story written by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted Scottish-American private detective and spy. This copy..... Read More about The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives [Autographed (?) by Robert A. Pinkerton
![Original Hand Drawn and Illustrated Manuscript:] Map of Lots on the Ocean Front of Poverty Beach,...](/pictures/thumb/145827_1.jpg?v=1534362280)
In 1880, The Cape May & Sewell’s Point Railroad Company was incorporated by real estate developer and railroad and steamship owner, Jonathan Cone. This original..... Read More about Original Hand Drawn and Illustrated Manuscript:] Map of Lots on the Ocean Front of Poverty Beach,...
Valuable Philadelphia Stock Exchange history. An important archive of letters and documents, most concerning railroad investments on the during the years 1866–1873, presents a significant..... Read More about Archive of 53 Letters and Documents from Stock and Exchange Brokers, John E. Fox & Co. of...
