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1857réf. 851841857. An Interesting Artifact of Private Railway Policing Policing. Stockton & Darlington Railway Company. Police Report Concerning the Death of a Young Man. Durham May 20 1857. Single 5" x 8" 13 x 20.5 cm sheet part-printed and completed in manuscript in a single hand circular device of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company at head docket to verso. Moderate toning horizontal and vertical fold lines negligible light soiling small tear to upper right corner. Very good. $250. The Stockton & Darlington Railway's police force was established around 1825 pre-dating the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829 and becoming the first railway police force. Like others of its kind it operated on a quasi-public basis and came to share jurisdiction with the public police in the area; quasi-public police forces were often criticized for concealing accidents to protect the company rather than the public. They were later integrated into the British Transport Police. This report was made by Robert Brown an officer of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It concerns the death of John James "Lithograph Boy at Holsingham" who was attempting to gather lime from a wagon on the railway. When the engineer unexpectedly moved the train backwards James was crushed beneath it. He died from his injuries two days later. unknown books
1853réf. BK0172Washington D.C. 1853. 24 pp. measuring 6 ½ x 10 inches. Stitched and untrimmed. Good with considerable wear and chipping at the edges some soiling and early pencil notations. Thomas Hart Benton's argument for a central transcontinental route issued as Congress was moving toward the government surveys that would dominate the Pacific railroad question during the next several years. Benton had been promoting a government-backed "central national highway" since 1849 running west from Missouri toward California. Writing to his former Missouri constituents on March 4 1853 Benton argues that the accumulated western explorations had already demonstrated the practicality of a central route. He gives particular attention to the country approaching the Rocky Mountains and to the search for a usable pass near the headwaters of the Arkansas and Rio Grande drawing heavily on the western travels of his son-in-law John C. Frémont. The final eight pages form an appendix bringing together evidence for the route. They include Frémont's 1850 letter to the Philadelphia Railroad Convention and more notably a statement made to Benton by the veteran trader and guide Antoine Leroux. Leroux recounts his early years in the West his association with the fur-trading expeditions of Ashley and Henry and his long residence at Taos. Graff describes this as the probable first printing of Leroux's statement. A useful piece of western railroad literature with substantial Frémont and New Mexico content published on the eve of the federal Pacific railroad surveys. Howes B368; Graff 270; Wagner-Camp 221; Sabin 4186. . unknown books
1919réf. 9033663new york 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled and edited by the Regiment.Many line drawings and photographic illustrations. Marbelized front and rear endpapers. Cloth covered boards. The front cover is stamped in gilt. The lower right corner of the front cover is bumped and there is some wear to the back and front covers. hardcover books
1873réf. 70529Philadelphia PA: Jay Cooke & Co 1873. Broadsheet. 43 x 25 cm. Promotional for a loan at 7% per annum for 30 years principal and interest payable in gold or if desired converted at 1.10 into real estate. Text describes the land granted the railroad the Emigration Scheme to settle and develop the Land work already begun services to be provided by the railroad etc. On verso is a map showing the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad from Duluth Minn. to Bellingham Washington. Old fold lines a few small spots else very good. Jay Cooke & Co. was originally created in 1861 as a partnership engaged in the banking business in Philadelphia. Separate companies were also formed in New York and Washington DC and the three were combined into one in January 1871 with assets exceeding $6 million. "In addition to their large negotiations of government securities they had conducted an extensive business in the negotiation of railroad bonds and paper as well as the ordinary business of discounting and negotiation of other securities." The Panic of 1873 caused many disruptions including destroying "all market for railroad bonds for the time being. reflecting the various antagonistic influences then at work against the railroads of the country culminating during the spring and summer of 1873 in almost total destruction of the credit of the railroad securities." Jay Cooke & Co. suspended operations in September 1873 and its assets including Northern Pacific Railroad stocks and bonds were sold by order of the courts in December of that year. see: an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer July 23 1874 for a lengthy discussion of the company and its finances. Jay Cooke & Co unknown books
1958réf. 83124N.p.: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen / Miller Printing Co 1958. Original printed strike placard 21" x 14". Printed in black on heavy card stock. Mild marginal wear slight toning; Very Good. The Brotherhood struck the E.J.&E. Railway in November 1958 to protest rules changes regarding seniority and the elimination of trades. The E.J. & E. was the sole source of transport for U.S. Steel's South Works and Gary plants which gave the union substantial leverage. According to contemporary accounts the strike was settled quickly. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen / Miller Printing Co unknown books
1974réf. 9033220Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum 1974. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Illustrated with numberous black & white photos. Colorado Railroad Museum hardcover books
1829réf. 70646Baltimore MD: Printed by William Wooddy 1829. 23 cm. 16 2 2 pp. Stitched self-wraps. Paper toned. Rink 59300. Thomson 296: "Articles reprinted from various sources." OCLC: Hagley NW Univ. Harvard Thurgood Marshall State Law Lib. Lib of MI. Inscribed to Hon. Benjamin Tappin with a note on the rear wrapper from W. W. Irvin stating it will have much public interest. Both men were political figures of the day in Ohio. Printed by William Wooddy unknown books
1876réf. 828261876. California. Robinson John R. Plaintiff. Central Pacific Railroad Company of California Principal Defendant. In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District Of the State of California In and For the City and County of San Francisco. John R. Robinson Plaintiff vs. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California et als. Defendants. Complaint. Alfred A. Cohen Delos Lake Attorneys for Plaintiff. San Francisco: S.n. 1876 63 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in original printed wrappers. Light toning to wrappers light foxing to rear wrapper some fading to extremities moderate toning to text internally clean. $150. Only edition. This document is part of a series of lawsuits by stockholders of the Central Pacific Railroad Company accusing the company of stock manipulation. Alfred A. Cohen 1829-1887 one of the attorneys for the plaintiff in this case was not a disinterested party: he had established the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad in 1863 and later sold it to Central Pacific. unknown books
1878réf. 69740Cincinnati Ohio: St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company 1878. Single sheet folded. 32 x 48 cm. Map 26 x 36 cm. Includes rates of fare "in effect May 1st 1878."/ Shows stations along the railroad and connecting lines./ Text on verso: "Eastern Missouri and Arkansas."/ Relief shown by hachures./ Stamped on verso: Henry H. Hannan land agent Swan Creek Ohio. Some erosion at fold affecting some lettering with loss of a few words of text. Map is unaffected. St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company] unknown books
1889réf. 66752Milwaukee WI: King Lawton & Fowle Printers 1889. Illustrated paperwraps. 22 cm. 40pp. illustration on inside of rear wrapper. Condensed Map of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway on rear cover. A promotional pamphlet for the "Land of the Dacotahs. the heart and hope of the New Northwest." OCLC lists SMU ND State WI Hist.Soc. Lib. Chicago Hist. Museum. slightly different title Huntington and a German edition at SD State Archive. King, Lawton & Fowle, Printers unknown books
1920réf. 738371920. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1920. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1920. From the Library of Louis D. Brandeis Brandeis Louis D. 1856-1941. United States Railroad Administration. Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads. At head of title page: United States Railroad Administration Director General of Railroads Supplement to Bulletin No. 4 Revised. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1920. 154 pp. Five folding tables. Stiff printed wrappers. Light toning and soiling to wrappers chipping to spine ends diagonal fold line to lower outside wrapper small hole along crease small note in pencil and ownership signature of Louis D. Brandeis in ink to head of front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior. $650. Only edition. Brandeis's ownership of this title a list of internal and external acts relating to railroad administration from 1917-1918 points to the deep and broad research that informed his legal opinions. Railroad administration was a hot-button issue of the early twentieth century touching on various aspects of the federal government's commercial and military authority. It was also a topic close to Brandeis's heart after his successful actions against J.P. Morgan's New Haven Railroad monopoly in 1914. unknown books
1919réf. 729111919. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1919. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1919. From the Library of Louis D. Brandeis Brandeis Louis D. 1856-1941. United States Railroad Administration. Public Acts Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads. At head of title page: United States Railroad Administration Director General of Railroads Bulletin No. 4 Revised. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1919. 452 pp. With two folding tables and an index. Stiff printed wrappers. Light toning and soiling to wrappers front wrapper detaching at foot but secure illegible mark in ink to rear wrapper which is starting at head chipping to spine ends small note in pencil and ownership signature of Louis D. Brandeis in ink to head of front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light soiling in a few places cracks to text block between pp. 160-161 176-177 336-337 all signatures secure small faint stain to p. 333. $650. Only edition. Brandeis's ownership of this title a list of internal and external acts relating to railroad administration from 1917-1918 typifies the deep and broad legal research made famous by the Brandeis brief. Railroad administration was a hot-button issue of the early twentieth century touching on various aspects of the federal government's commercial and military authority. It was also a topic close to Brandeis's heart after his successful actions against J.P. Morgan's New Haven railroad monopoly in 1914. unknown books
1867réf. 65589NP Oregon: np 1867. Broadsheet on blue-gray paper. 27 x 21 cm. Slight wrinkled old fold lines a few tears along folds not affecting text. Not in Belknap Oregon Imprints 1845-1870. np unknown books
1976réf. 51261Kennett Square PA: by the Author 1976. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 36pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Faint foxing to title page else Fine. Brief illustrated historical guide to Chester County landmarks on the Underground Railroad. by the Author unknown books
1910réf. 43222Pottsville PA: Order of Railway Conductors 1910. Original lithograph certificate 57.75x35.75cm. printed in black on heavy cream stock accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored with mounted original albumen photographic portrait lozenge 8cm in diameter. Stock has suffered some fairly heavy frame burn to extremities and verso blank along with some brief glue residue and paper flaws from where the stock was previously mounted not affecting image or text. Still overall Very Good the colors and photograph vibrant. Initiation certificate to ORC member William A. Nye of the Pottsville Division No. 416 P&R Ry. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Caboose No. 90073 dated July 10 1910. The head of the certificate shows a lovely red engine steaming past a grassy field over which is mounted Nye's photographic portrait though the largest portion of the piece is devoted to an oversized symbol of the ORC a large circle 23cm in diameter divided into three equal parts depicting an arm with a coupling an arm with a lantern and whistle and an arm entwined with a snake-like chain. Order of Railway Conductors unknown books
1914réf. 24899Cleveland: Britton Printing Company 1914. First Edition. Large thick octavo 24cm.; original full sheep red and black morocco gilt spine labels all edges marbled floral endpapers; 61134pp.; illus. text in double column. Some peeling and cracking to leather extremities scuffed; textblock fine. About Very Good. Complete run for the year 1914 of a monthly published by the Brotherhood. Articles include Arthur Brisbane's "Female Labor and Minimum Wage"; Knud Benson's "The Panama Railroad"; R.H. Newcomb's "American Railroad Company Porto Rico"; and countless articles on safety and child labor. Poetry and fiction also present. Britton Printing Company unknown books
1905réf. 9016813Chicago: Rand McNally 1905. Hardcover. Fine. A History of the Chicago and Northwestern Railrway System. Bound in white cloth. Rand McNally hardcover books
1859réf. 562051859. Analysis of Litigation Between The New York Central and One of Its Vendors New York Central Railroad Company. Disaster to the New York Central Railroad: Decisions of the General Term of the Supreme Court In Third Judicial District September 1859. 37 pp. Octavo 9" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Rear wrapper lacking front detached signatures loose some chipping to edges of front wrapper and margins of a few leaves. Some toning to text internally clean. A scarce item. $50. Only edition. This anonymous pamphlet analyzes litigation between the railroad and a wood supplier. It alleges incompetence on the part of the New York Central's management team. OCLC locates 6 copies 1 in New York at Syracuse University none in law libraries. Not in Cohen. unknown books
1869réf. 24607NY: The railway; Phair & Co. Printers 1869. First edition. 8vo.; 7 5 36pp. Large folding map separated along one fold 34 by 29 inches with some outlines colored. Original printed wrappers front wrapper chipped and detached else very good. A circular and special report on the Burlington Cedar Rapids & Minnesota Railway Company including its articles of incorporation. The railway; Phair & Co., Printers unknown books
1926réf. 14325Augusta GA: Commercial Printing Co 1926. 8vo. 32pp illus. Wraps. Very good. Promotional pamphlet. Commercial Printing Co unknown books
1875réf. 37686St. 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. The railway (Jno. McKittrick & Co., printers, St. Louis) unknown books
1913réf. 2334Portsmouth VA: Seaboard Air Line Railway 1913. EPHEMERA MAP RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. Center-fold Map: Map of the Sea Board Airline Railway and Connections with inset Seaboard Air Line in Florida Buffalo N.Y.: The Matthews Northrup Works 1913. 16 ½ x 9 1/8" centerfold map. 9 1/8" x 4 ¼" tall oblong bifold pamphlet; 38pp; wrapper printed in red and black and features the cities served by the rail line; 2 staple binding; train time tables printed in black; center map; 2 b&w photographic illustrations; ad for cattle raising in the south titled "Why the South Grows"; lightly age-toned edges small pencil scribble on rear; near fine. This date and publisher not found in OCLC. An interesting railway pamphlet advertising the rail routes with the timetable. The company advertises "The Shortest Line from New York to Southern Resorts" with a line called Seaboard Florida Limited traveling from "New York to Palm Beach Hotels with Only One Night Out" and "Four Hours Quickest Time New York to Tampa and the West Coast Florida." They also offered service from Florida to Cuba and steamship connections from several cities along the east coast. Two of the special trips offered were the "Homeseekers Excursions from Washington" traveling to North and South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Florida; and "Personally Conducted Tours via Pennsylvania R.R. New York to Pinehurst and Florida". [Seaboard Air Line Railway] unknown books
1880réf. 811Montreal P.Q.: Canada Railway News Co 1880. Boards. Good. 16mo square 5 7/8" x 5"; accordion fold 24pp; gilt-stamped red pebbled paper over board elaborate gilt border surrounding title including two griffins and an urn blind stamped rear board; black cloth spine; 12 glazed accordion folded panels printed grey chromolithograph illustrations one side only; bumping to corners scuffing to boards cloth on spine separated at front board head and tail but binding holding tight light soiling and creasing to pages light foxing to rear pastedown and verso last page a few folds with small separations at head or tail; good. Half-page width triptych of the town of St. John from Fort Howe illustrations including important buildings churches private residences bridges harbor view parks and street scenes around St. John. Canada Railway News Co unknown books
1869réf. 235661869. Indian railway archive spanning 1869 to 1946 documenting the construction financing administration and everyday operation of one of the largest transportation systems created under colonial rule. Railways transformed the movement of people commodities troops and information across the subcontinent linking port cities pilgrimage centers agricultural districts and frontier regions through a network that expanded from the first passenger line of 1853 into tens of thousands of miles of track by the twentieth century. The archive brings together engineering documentation corporate finance operating manuals photographic views and press photographs tracing the railway from its physical construction in 1869 to its role in the daily movement of millions of passengers during the final decades of British India. Archive of 20 pieces including 16 silver gelatin and black and white real photo postcard photographs three railway publications and one Bengal Provincial Railway Company share certificate India 1869 to 1946. The archive includes an 1895 ten-rupee share certificate issued by The Bengal Provincial Railway Company Limited; a 1946 East Indian Railway timetable; a 1945-1946 North Western Railway Karachi Division working timetable carrying staff regulations and train schedules; and an 1869 engineering publication containing a large foldout schematic titled "Jumna Bridge Delhi Railway" illustrating foundation wells and bridge construction methods. The photographs depict railway stations crowded with passengers and pilgrims; vendors selling fruit through train windows; station platforms occupied by European and Indian travelers; native preachers distributing religious tracts in a railway station; heavily congested rail traffic; locomotives operating through forested sections of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway; the Darjeeling Loop and Double Loop engineering works; and press photographs documenting derailments crowding and railway accidents. Several photographs bear typed news agency captions. The press photographs place the railway within crisis reporting including the 1945 Calcutta Hindu Muslim riot crowds on railway tracks the Hyderabad passenger train bridge collapse that killed more than 112 people and the Madras flood related train disaster reported as South India's worst rail disaster with nearly 150 killed. The material spans nearly the entire history of railway development in colonial India from nineteenth-century bridge engineering and railway finance through the mature network of the 1940s. The Bengal Provincial Railway certificate reflects the speculative capital that financed railway expansion while the Jumna Bridge plans document the engineering techniques required to carry rail lines across major river systems. The Darjeeling views record one of the most celebrated mountain railways of the colonial world built to overcome steep Himalayan terrain through loops reverses and narrow-gauge construction. The 1946 timetables and photographs of crowded stations pilgrims vendors and accident scenes show how railways had become indispensable to commercial exchange religious travel and mass mobility by the final years before Partition and independence. Light surface wear occasional creasing expected age toning and minor handling wear throughout; foldout engineering plate intact. Overall very good condition. A concentrated record of how railway finance engineering administration and passenger movement combined to create the transportation system that reshaped colonial India. unknown books
1974réf. 236031974. Historic railroad preservation photo archive depicting men rebuilding track by hand likely in Wisconsin circa 1974 to 1978 recording the labor behind an early heritage railroad or museum railroad operation. The photographs show a mixed volunteer crew repairing a rural line with bars jacks hand tools pneumatic tools and improvised supplies rather than large production machinery. The group belongs to the 1970s expansion of railroad preservation when museums and local groups saved equipment and short stretches of track left behind by the contraction of American branch line service. Photo archive of 37 sequentially numbered silver gelatin photographs likely drawn from a larger project record approximately 8 x 10 inches likely Wisconsin circa 1974 to 1978. The photographs show men working along a wooded railroad right of way pulling spikes driving spikes lifting rail shoveling ballast checking alignment and using track jacks and long lining bars to shift rail into place. Several images show workers kneeling over ties standing astride rails handling buckets and tools and watching as others operate pneumatic equipment. Other views show a small rail yard with old freight cars cabooses work equipment a train or railcar numbered 31 and a station or depot building with a partially visible sign beginning "North." One photograph shows a worker using a "Pratt & Lambert Vapex" bucket apparently repurposed for grease compound bolts or other maintenance material. The images also include informal portraits of the crew older men and younger men working together a few posed groupings and a final handshake giving the archive the character of a project record rather than a railroad publicity file. By the 1970s many railroad preservation groups had moved beyond saving locomotives and passenger cars into the harder work of maintaining actual track. Abandoned or lightly used branch lines required tie replacement rail alignment ballast work and mechanical repair before historic trains could operate for the public. These photographs document that work at ground level: men on their knees at the rail hand tools in use old rolling stock nearby and a rural station setting that points toward a small preservation railroad rather than a commercial mainline crew. Light surface wear with occasional handling marks. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of hand track work volunteer maintenance and early historic railroad preservation likely in Wisconsin during the 1970s. unknown books
