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1880658Cincinnati 1880. Very good. Folding brochure eight panels to each side. Minor wear and soiling. Contemporary ink stamp on two panels. Promotional brochure for the land grants of the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. The brochure outlines the benefits of the climate the resources and agriculture in the region ease of transport and access and other features: "People from all sections of the country who desire to better their condition are cordially invited to come to Arkansas and secure cheap homes. All classes of citizens without regard to political opinions join to build up the material interests of the state and develop its extraordinary resources. The colored people constitute only one-fourth of the population." The usual "Bound for the Happy Lands" circular woodcut of the railroad adorns two panels and a small map highlights the Texas Short Line from St. Louis to Texarkana. With the ink stamp of Henry H. Hannan land agent in Swan Creek Ohio. unknown books
187537686St. Louis: The railway Jno. McKittrick & Co. printers St. Louis 1875. Broadside 21 x 7 inches three paragraphs of promotional material ticket office addresses and fare rates set in many typefaces and sizes including display type and illustrated with a circular bird's-eye view map below the heads. Some old staining mostly in margin; "Henry Hannan Land Agent" stamp else very good. Advertising ticket fares and lands for sale to customers in Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Kentucky. OCLC locates two copies Yale Truman State University. <br/><br/> The railway (Jno. McKittrick & Co., printers, St. Louis) unknown books
1880WRCAM55682St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co. 1880. Broadside 21 x 6 1/2 inches. Old center horizontal fold small chip to left edge slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped. An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis through Arkansas and into Texas beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri one in Illinois and one in Arkansas. <br> <br> The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods having Roads Mills Churches and Schools and peopled by honest and industrious citizens who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." <br> <br> Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records located at Yale SMU Michigan the University of Texas at Arlington Truman State and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. OCLC 22160865 166641127 702349761 761878887. Jno. McKittrick & Co. unknown books
7199baSt. Louis MO: St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Book. Railroads; ticket for passage. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway unknown books
1982289515Southern Railway Ladies Club 1982. Spiral Bound. Very Good binding. A loose-leaf typewritten cookbook published by the Southern Railway Ladies Club housed in a three ring binder. Includes instructions for equivalent and substitute ingredients herb hints pickling and numerous Southern recipes. Lacking the title page. OCLC notes only one institutional holding. Very Good binding. [Southern Railway Ladies Club] unknown books
47608Washington DC: Southern Railway nd. Paperback. Very good. 30pp. Light rubbing else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Southern Railway paperback books
196339982Oakland CA: Southern Pacific Railways 1963. 1st printing presumed. Stiff white printed paper. Modest wear to paper faint age-toning and creasing to edges. Stamped by F. L. Rizzo - Steward to a particular dining car. A VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Includes prices alongside breakfast meal options. Southern Pacific Railways unknown books
1920m1362Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. n.d. ca. 1920. Oblong quarto stiff illustrated wrappers with paper label string-tied iv pp. 22 leaves. Map and 22 color photographs of views along the Southern Pacific Railroad route over the Sierras mounted on individual pages with brief textual explanations. Very Good. Curt Teich & Co., n.d. [ca. 1920.] unknown books
1907288696San Francisco. : Southern Pacific Company. 1907. . 1st Edition. Softcover black embossed pictorial wraps. . Old paper tape repair to spine cover edges worn still a good plus copy with very good contents. . 4to. Color illustrations throughout. Southern Pacific Company. paperback books
190643671n. p. 1906. 1st printing presumed. Pale green paper wrappers stapled with b/w graphic to front wrapper. Modest wear. Light age-toning to wrappers. VG. 22 2 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographic images & with drawings. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Departing San Francisco on the 17th and LA on the 18th one is invited to tour old Mexico via SP's "fine vestibuled Pullman sleepers." The pamphlet then goes on to describe the many allures of Mexico including Chihuahua Zacatecas & San Luis Potosi to name a few. Uncommon. unknown books
187527665New York: Evening Post Steam Presses 1875. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. iv 3-133 pp. Wrappers moderately worn else a clean text and Very Good.<br/><br/> A comprehensive compilation of the legal documents creating and authorizing the Railroad and its branches and affiliates. OCLC locates five copies under several accession numbers as of March 2018. A shorter version with this title appeared in 1873. Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
19283927San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1928. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Bright. Folds as issued. Guide for the prospective tourist that offers descriptions of four scenic routes offered by the Southern Pacific: Sunset Route Shasta Route Overland Route Lake Tahoe Line Golden State Route. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and a nice double-page pictorial map 36 cm x 18 cm at the center: 'The Best Way to See the Pacific Coast.' <br/><br/>"In this booklet are separate descriptions of Sunset Golden State Overland and Shasta Routes. At the end of the description of each route are several itineraries suggesting optional plans for seeing the points of interest on the Pacific Coast depending upon the route to be taken returning East. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
19223527Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works 1922. Color map 65 cm x 52 cm on a single sheet 69 cm x 56 cm printed on both sides and folds to pamphlet size 23 cm x 9 cm Very good. Folds as issued. Large map color map of California that locates the Southern Pacific rail lines. Printed over Nevada is an index to places in California and the adjacent border towns of Nevada. Three inset maps 'The Bay Region About San Francisco' 18 cm x 13 cm; 'Los Angeles and Vicinity Showing Pacific Electric Railway ' 8 cm x 13 cm; 'Comparative Area' 14 cm x 10 cm. Reverse contains "A Brief Description of its Resources Attractions Topography and Climate" over 15 numbered panels.<br/><br/>"It is worth while to know the California of today to know what you can do in it; what money you can make and what comfort you can find in it; what home life it offers. New opportunities await the newcomer because new activities are developing. Irrigation has made the great valleys attractive and created farms and town where only ranches existed. The Matthews-Northrup Works unknown books
19021511San Francisco 1902. Very good. 120pp. including twenty plates many folding. 12mo. Original limp calf front cover gilt lettered. Light wear to spine and extremities. Internally quite clean. A very interesting early 20th-century manual and rule book for personnel in the Maintenance and Way Department of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Contained here are rules and instructions for a wide array of railroad employees including roadmasters bridge superintendants trackmen bridgemen and other watchmen. The principal portion of the text comprises nearly 270 general rules and regulations such as those governing the adjustment of woodtruss bridges lining and surfacing track keeping clear rights of way and establishing standards for numerous other basic repairs on track ties signals and other critical infrastructure. A short appendix contains laws from the several states in which Southern Pacific operated regarding the accidental killing of livestock by trains and railroad employees. At the rear are twenty plates many folding with reference diagrams for track and other maintenance projects.<br /><br />This edition is revised from the first edition of 1898 with a substantially different pagination. Several plates have been excised from the rear of this copy; however the only other copy that we locate of this work at UC Santa Barbara also is lacking a number of plates. books
190051799Chicago: Curt Teich & Co 1900. Oblong 4to unpaginated; 23 full-p. sepia illustrations mounted including a folding double-page panorama map two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt paper label illustration mounted on upper cover ribbon ties at spine; covers a bit toned and lightly chipped at edges illustrations clean & bright overall very good. A picturesque view-book of scenery from the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake. <br/><br/> Curt Teich & Co unknown books
19245427San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1924. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Vertical fold as issued. Illustrated guide for the prospective tourist that offers a stop-by-stop guide from Seattle to San Francisco that provides information usually a paragraph on each stop along the route of the Southern Pacific. <br/><br/>'These are notes by the way. They anticipate questions and indicate features of the route and points of interest as seen from the car window. For the convenience of passengers side trips are stated distances given and fares noted wherever junctions occur or where stage lines run to places of resort or to towns off the main line. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
18798694La Crosse Wisconsin 1879. Original printed wrappers stitched 32 clean pages. Wrappers lightly soiled Very Good. FIRST EDITION. unknown books
188761105bdDeLand Fla.: Saint Johns - Oklawaha River Trading Company 1981. Facsimile reproduction of the 1887 edition with an Introduction by V. O. Coshow. Octavo stiff illustrated wrappers stapled 1 - 84 pp. Illustrations advertisements. Fine. Saint Johns - Oklawaha River Trading Company, (1981). Facsimile reproduction of the 1887 edition, with an Introduction by V. O unknown books
96482Good for the fare of one passenger one hundred and twenty five miles. Issued on July 1st 1873. handsomely engraved with a steam engine and coal car. Charleston 1873. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
18681389640th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED203. 1868. 11pp Disbound Very Good. HED203. unknown books
19404230Chicago: Rand McNally 1940. Single sheet 15 cm x 51.5 cm Printed on both sides and folding to pamphlet size 15 cm x 8.5 cm with folds as issued. Better than very good. Time tables for the six Santa Fe Railway trains to California Super Chief The Chief El. Capitan California Limited The Scout Grand Canyon Limited included are amenities rules and rates. List of agents and altitudes of the towns and stops along the line.<br/><br/>"There's all this to enjoy on your trip to or from California via Santa Fe. Grand Canyon: Direct to the Canyon's rim goes Santa Fe only railroad entering Grand Canyon National Park. Indian Detours: 1 to 3 day motor side-trips exploring the Spanish-Indian area around Old Santa Fe New Mexico. Dude Ranches: There are more than 80 of them along the Santa Fe in the sunny healthful out-of-doors Southwest. Ask for Santa Fe's beautiful free dude-ranch booklet. Rand McNally unknown books
19294222Chicago: Rand McNally 1929. 68pp. Square octavo 23 cm x 20 cm Black and white illustrated wrappers with vertical fold at the center as issued. Very good. Promotional work from the Santa Fe Railroad for the prospective tourist to the southwest that includes descriptions altitude population industries points of interest historical tidbits etc. of all the towns and stops along the Santa Fe line from Chicago to San Francisco. Illustrated with black and white views and maps.<br/><br/>"The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System traverses the heart of romantic America - the land of the conquistadores and padres the pathfinders traders and pioneers. Some of the most remarkable scenery in the world is found on its lines and in the vast frontier hinterland to north and south. Santa Fe tracks tap the most fertile farming sections of the United States and regions rich in mineral wealth." - p.3. Rand McNally unknown books
19473847Chicago: Rand McNally 1947. Single sheet 28 cm x 64 cm folded twice and printed on both sides. Near fine. Promotional piece for the prospective tourist from the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that offers information on transportation accommodations with rates and activities at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Illustrated with photographs and a map.<br/><br/>"Few places in the world are so varied and interesting the year 'round and few scenic attractions so completely arranged for visitors as Grand Canyon. You are carried right to the South Rim in Santa Fe sleeping cars. Upon arrival you can spend your time walking along rim paths or take longer rim tours by motor coach. At observation points you can relax and spend hours viewing the many wonders of the Canyon you will marvel at its ever-changing beauty from sunup to sunset. Rand McNally unknown books
1946243N.p. 1946. Very good. Poster 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear a few minor chips and tears at edges. A handsome poster advertising travel on the Santa Fe Railroad painted in the bold teals and earth tones associated with the Southwest. The poster features a Hopi dancer performing the Buffalo Dance. He fills almost the entirety of the image with a crowd of people gathered around the pueblo in the far background. The poster was designed by Don Perceval who did several such works for the railroad. Born in Britain Perceval 1908-1979 whose mother was also an artist moved to Los Angeles as a child and became enamored of the Southwest. He specialized in images of Hopi and Navajo Indians a subject he began sketching in the 1920s. That knowledge and interest is certainly applied here in the inclusion of culturally correct costuming for the event. In addition to his art he also did commercial work for the Santa Fe Railroad such as the present piece bringing his vibrant style to the company's advertising. unknown books
1946242N.p. 1946. Near fine. Poster 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear. A handsome poster advertising travel on the Santa Fe Railroad featuring several Navajo Indians in the foreground and a pueblo in the background. One of the men in the foreground stands drumming while the others are seated behind him chatting. The vibrant colors are washed out slightly by the fierce New Mexican sun softening the view. The railroad produced numerous promotional posters in the 1940s many of them -- such as this one -- quite striking. No artist is identified on this work. unknown books
