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Lot 590
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$125
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Lot Description
[TRANSPORTATION]. First Grand Excursion of the Western Hose Co., No. 1, to Piney Point. [Washington, D.C.]: Waters, 1856.
Visible 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. printed broadside (toning, some offsetting); matted and framed to 13 x 15 5/8 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by William Riggles, R.E. Booth, F.T. Wilson, and A.F. Beedle.
An advertisement for a "pleasure trip" on the steamer Powhatan run by the Western Hose Company. The copy expounds on the attractions of Piney Point including "salt water Bathing, together with an abundance of Oysters, Crabs, Sheepheads, Drums..."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents