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American History: Premier Auction
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- Sale 1853
Live
| Cincinnati
Jun 21 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1853
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$400 – $600
Printed broadside, 6 x 14 in., matted to 8 x 16 in. Great National Route! Shortest Route to Baltimore and Quickest Route to Philadelphia, Little Miami, Central Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads via Columbus, Zanesville and Wheeling. Cincinnati, OH: Enquirer Print, n.d., ca mid-nineteenth century. Promoting the "Two Daily Trains" running east from Cincinnati to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, DC. This route checked baggage "through from Cincinnati to Baltimore or Washington, and only two changes of Cars between Cincinnati and Baltimore" and was also unique as "the only route by which through tickets can be had to Philadelphia and New York, via Baltimore" and "to Washington City...without detention to Charleston, Savannah...and all points South." Illustrated with image of train at center.
General wear to edges and corners, with series of diagonal creases concentrated at upper left.
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