The ad, from 1897, comprises the cover of vol. This cover image crosses several collecting categories- medicine, cartography, advertising, and quackery. It superimposes the image of a human with red veins and capillaries over a map of the United States. Unrecorded persuasive advertisement for quack cure-alls using a map of the human circulatory system. Unrecorded-anthropomorphic-map-human-circulatory-system-quack-cure Unrecorded anthropomorphic map human circulatory system quack cure Printed in Louisville, KY by the Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company. Published by the passenger department of the Louisville and Nashville R.R.
Six-panel folding map, neatly folded inside a 64-page pamphlet (4.5 " x 7.25") titled "The Gulf Coast".
Numerous steam-powered and wind-powered vessels are shown plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ponchartrain and the Mississippi River. Louis, Ocean Springs, Pass Christian, Mississippi City, Biloxi, Pascagoula. "Unrivaled in Speed, Construction and Equipment."įine bird's eye view of the central Gulf Coast highlighting the route of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from Mobile, Alabama, through Mississippi, to New Orleans, Louisiana. "The Great Through Car Line Between the North and South." The age of steam! Great for the man cave.īirds Eye View of Gulf Coast Louisville and Nashville Railroadīirds-Eye-View-of-Gulf-Coast-Louisville-and-Nashville-Railroad Shows little trains of four or five commuter cars with a steam engine puffing along ahead. Railroad lines shown include: the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, West Jersey Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York and Long Branch R.R., the Cumberland and Maurice Railroad and many more. Includes New York City at top, Coney Island, Asbury Park, Manasquan, Barnegat, Atlantic City, Cape May, Philadelphia, Delaware Bay and River and Rehoboth Beach at bottom. This old survivor shows numerous resorts, beaches, parks, coast and bays covered with decorative ship traffic heading in every direction, most of the vessels under sail or sail with steam assist. Matted and framed pictorial map from 1885 to accompany the Pennsylvania Railroad Summer Excursion routes publication. Interesting map evoking seaside dreams of an earlier age at the Jersey shore. Signed, and dated within to August 4, 1929,Įarly Pictorial Map of New Jersey Ocean Resorts and RailroadsĮarly-Pictorial-Map-of-New-Jersey-Ocean-Resorts-and-Railroads An online search turned up another map by Dummer in a very similar style and format: "Points of Interest in Quaint Marblehead, published by the Marblehead Craft Shop. No examples of the map in WorldCat, OWA, or AMPR. Inset illustrations of historical structures including the Garrison House, "Old Ship Church" and "The Old Ordinary" as well as named homes of local families including Ulman, Beal, Reilly, Donovan, Bolles, Foss and the entrance to the estate of Mrs. The map includes the locations of Bumkin Island, Weir River, World's End, Planters Hill, Sandy Beach, and Hominy Point. Unrecorded and very scarce pictorial map of Boston's South Shore including the towns of Hingham and Cohasset. Rare-unrecorded-pictorial-historical-map-Boston-South-Shore Rare unrecorded pictorial historical map Boston South Shore
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