American Historical Ephemera & Photography

The Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offers for Sale Over 2,000,000 Acres Selected Farming and wood Lands, In Tracts of Forty Acres and Upwards, to Suit Purchasers... New York: John W. Amerman, 1856. 8vo. With 2 frontispiece maps: Outline Map of Illinois and Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Railroad Lands. (Some brown spotting.) Original printed wrappers (rear wrapper partially detached). FIRST EDITION.  [With:] 1857 edition, with both maps. Buck 2683; Buck 559. -- Documents in Relation to Internal Improvements in the State of Ilinois. January 12, 1838. [Washington, D.C].: Blair & Rives, [1838]. Senate 25th Congress, 2d Session. RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy. Discusses the Illinois Central Railroad and Fort Dearborn. -- In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858...Illinois Central Railroad Company vs. the United States. [Washington D.C.]: N.p., [1858] 35th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Mis. Doc. No. 145. -- Together, 4 pamphlets.

[With:] 64 Miles and 5 Hours' Time Saved! Great American & United States Express and Mail Route! Michigan Southern and Lake Shore Railroads Summer Arrangements for 1856. Chicago: Chicago Journal Pint., 1856. 5 x 11 in. handbill. Verso features map with train routes. -- Farm Lands for Sale. The Illinois Central Railroad Company is Now prepared to sell Overt Two Millions of Acres of Prairie Farm Lands. Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 1855. 10 1/2 x 16 7/8 in. printed circular (old folds). Recto in the style of a broadside advertising Illinois land, verso with a letter printed in script, dated 10 January 1855 in type, and signed by Charles M. Dupuy, Jr. in type. It was folded and mailed to A. Wheeler of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, with a January 31st postmark from Chicago. -- Mich. Southern & Nor. Indiana R.R. Express Freight Line Fall Rates on Eastern Bound Freight. Chicago: Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding, 1862. 9 x 15 in. broadside printed in red. -- State of Illinois, County of McDonough, Northern Cross Rail Road Subscription Bond...One Thousand Dollars. Quincy, IL: Patriot Office, Gibson & Warren, 1874. 16 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (short separations at creases, certificates removed). -- An Ordinance to License the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad Company to lay down a track in certain streets, Market Square, and Public Landing, and for other purposes. [Alton, IL?]: N.p., 1856. 8 x 21 1/2 in. broadside (tissue repaired). -- Together, 5 broadsides and handbills.

[Also with:] GOSHORN, William J. Autograph letter signed ("Wm. J. Goshorn"), to his wife Priscilla. Philadelphia, 8 June 1851. 2 pages, 4to, with original envelope. Goshorn writes to his wife with details of a train accident. -- Three sheets of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Co. letterhead, with manuscript writing. Trenton, MO, 1870s. -- Printed ircular letter for Mississippi and Lake Michigan Rail Road. Rockford, IL, 9 December 1845. -- Together,  5 documents.

[Also with:] Illinois Central Railroad Chicago, Ills. Chicago River to Washington Street. Chicago: Office of Chief Engineer, 1907. 36 1/4 x 34 in. map (separations at old creases).