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Lot 245
Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$100 -
150
Price Realized
$61
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Lot Description
[TRANSPORTATION]. Northern R.R. Co. Regulations For the Receipt...and Delivery of Freight, 1854.
Northern R.R. Company Regulations For the Receipt, Storage, and Delivery of Freight, at Ogdensburgh. Ogdensburgh, NY: Hitchcock & Tillotson, 10 May 1854. 16 x 10 1/4 in. printed broadside; framed to 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. Signed in type by Superintendent George V. Hoyle.
The Northern Railroad (later the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad) was incorporated on 14 May 1845 to connect Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence River to Rouses Point on Lake Champlain, with construction completed on 1 October 1850. It connected with the Vermont and Canada Railroad across a floating bridge on 1 September 1851 opening up several New England markets. The broadside here advertises the prices for their services of storing and delivery of various types of freight.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
