Railroads &amp; Transportation

A Story History of the Banana with Recipes, United Fruit Co Booklet

Wells Fargo & Co's California Express New York

Illustrated Steamer sailing Ship - SLOW- Freight Bill

Billhead Printed Blue and Red Color - Freight payable in American Coin, To San Francisco for Smith & Davis , shipper Webster & Co. Portland Oregon Steamer Champion

$100

Columbus Watch Company Railway King Ad Photo

Bakers Art Gallery - Cabinet Photo - Parts of The Columbus Watch - Pictured - 185 Pieces

Illustrated Rail Road Engine - Watch Parts - Gears , Etc., Main-Spring Power - Watch can run 8-10 Hours longer than others

$150

Colorado Rail Road Engine #100 River Bridge Photo

W.H. Jackson Rocky Mountain Scenery Cabinet Photo Denver

Railroad Engine & 2 Cars Parked at Iron Truss Bridge over River Crossing, American Photographer - William Henry Jackson - Civil War Vet - Artist - Explorer

$100

National Express Trip Book - American Agency Photo

National Express Company

Paid by Federal Revenue Stamps - 4 Different Issues, National Express Co and American Express Co, 4 different sign above front entry door and at windows. 8X10 Mount Photo

$400

1838 Evansville, Indiana Freight Ephemera

Early 19th Century - Illustrated Freighting Document

"June 8, 1838: Evansville, IA (Indiana) / William Thurston & Co. Forwarding and Commission Merchants", RARE - Covered Wagon / Conestoga Wagon: Illustrated Billhead / Invoicing, Receipt Document

$175

1857 Detroit Riverboat Paddle Wheeler Sailing Ship

Signed by Refus Brown

Letter sheet design showing various boats and paddle wheel steamer in foreground, datelined Detroit letter, 2 Page Letter engraved illustrated river city view

$250

The San Jose Rail Road Company Circular

D.W. Connely , William Alvord , J.E. de la Montagnie

This Excursion just before the meeting of the rails at Promontory Point Utah, 1869 San Francisco Excursion to Menlo Park

$250

Sacramento CA to Gould & Curry Nevada Pony Express

Wells Fargo Mail Delivery to Mines in Virginia City Nevada

25c Blue Wells Fargo Adhesive Original Pony Express Cover and Stamps Small Exhibit, Original envelope delivered Via Pony Express for 25c Extra added Sacramento to Virginia City

$750

1850 PA LetterSheet Portable Boat Hauling Overland

Taaffe & O'Connor

Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line For Transportation of Freight to and from Philadelphia , Baltimore , New York , Boston - 3 Wagon Pods connect to make boat for water transportation, 82 Feet long portable boats were built in three sections with each section watertight

$750

1905 Kansas City MO Great Western Oil Refining

John M. Cameron , 2 page type letterhead letter Satisfied Tests refining with natural gas

Prospectus - Booklet - Panorama - Santa Fe Refinery, Main Line and spur track , Illustrated map print of operation. Refinery No.1 Erie Kansas on thin waxy type paper., Refining and Pipe Line company 2 page type Letter signed by sect. & treasurer John M. Cameron , illustrated booklet

1870 – A historically important postally-used envelope sent from Fort Yuma, California to Auburn, California, in the heart of what had formerly been California’s richest gold-mining country, List price has been discounted for this show.

Fort Yuma, Califonia Mail

Unidentified Sender

1837 – A letter from the first Collector of Tolls for the Erie Canal reporting its poor state of repair, navigational issues, and other significant problems, List price has been discounted for this show.

Report on the Erie Canal

John Staats

$120

Wanted Poster - Mail Train Robbery

C. B. Anderson and M. J. Forman

1911 – Reward poster for the capture of two men who “held up and robbed” the registered mail carried by a Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway train, List price has been discounted for this show.

$225

Broadside Advertising Sleighs

J. H. Birch

1885 – Broadside advertising sleighs, along with a handbill advertising harnesses, enclosed in a postally used envelope that features an all-over illustration of the factory that made them, List price has been discounted for this show.

$125

Map Broadsheet Adverting Railroad Bonds

Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway

1873 – Broadsheet showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway on one side and advertising a bond sale to fund the purchase of steel track rails, List price has been discounted for this show.

$225

Streecar Company Stock Certificates

Memphis City Rail Road Company

1870s – Two attractive stock certificates issued by the Memphis City Rail Road, a horse-drawn trolley company, List price has been discounted for this show.

$325

Currier & Ives "Railway Fares" Train View Card

Train View Design Printed by Currier & Ives - 19th Century Victorian Business Advertising Card

RARE: Railroad Currier & Ives Lansing's Steamboat, Ocean Steamer, Railway Ticket Office SR.153 Trade Card, Advertising: "500 Lines Represented in One Office ... 397 Broadway, New York."

$580

Two Weeks Destroying Southern Railroads

A. [Aaron] Crouch

1863 – Letter from a New York soldier reporting that he had spent two weeks destroying Virginia railroad tracks and relating a ‘friendly-fire’ incident caused by drunken officers, List price has been discounted for this show.

1857 – Young man's letter describing his voyage from New York to San Francisco,which included crossing the Isthmus via the Panama Railroad to join his father, a construction supervisor at Vallejo, List price has been discounted for this show.

New York to San Francisco Travel Letter

William Wallace Hanscom

Fort William Henry Hotel, Season of 1887

LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. HOTEL RESORT

T. E. Roessle

$125

William D. Kempton ("Star" of Porkopolis.)

(Bicycles / Midwest) Star dust; satire, humor and pathos, in prose and verse,, The Poet-Wheelman of Cincinnati

Albula Bahn. Lehrgerüste der Eisenbahnbrücke bei Solis., Photograph of a trial framework for a gorge-spanning bridge

Giant Photograph of an Engineering Marvel

Reinhardt, Anton

1930's DKW Sport German Motorcycle Ad

$72

1930's Zundapp German Motorcycle Ad for the Victoria Model Motorcycle

$105

1932 History of Zeppelins / Blimps Book w/ 264 Photos Pictures Inside in German

$415

1940- 24 Booklets- Aeronautics A Complete Guide to Civil And Military Flying

$163

THE FARAWAY LAND NEARBY

[Mexico]

10 Brochures / Booklets on Travel to Mexico

$150

Early London Underground Map

H.C. Beck

London Underground Transport Railway Map No. 1, 1936

$250

1910's New York Schenectady Railway Company Travel Brochure for Hudson Valley

$85

1939 Travel Booklet "Chicago & North Western Union Pacific" - Summer Tours *

$76

Interesting 1939 Pennsylvania Railroad Classification Booklet w/ Great Pics *

$40

1894 Secondhand Bicycle

Letter requesting parts to a Columbia bicycle, from Winchendon MA

Charles M. Day

$45

Maps

Modelski, Andrew M. (compiler)

RAILROAD MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, A SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL 19TH CENTURY MAPS IN THE GEOGRAPHY AND MAP DIVISION OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

$35

INDONESIA, CHINA, JAPAN, JAVA, SUMATRA, CEYLON

3 Travel Brochures for Asia, Indonesia & the Pacific: Visit Java and Sumatra, Dutch East-Indian Government Railways; Asia Via Honolulu, Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ; Miss Philippines is Calling You

(Travel Brochures)

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