Jun 12 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2708 -

Sale 2708 - Lot 132

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Old Colony Railroad. Celebration of the Opening of Railroad Facilities to Provincetown . . . Excursion. Letterpress broadside, 23½ x 19½ inches, printed in blue; moderate staining, 2 short closed tears, horizontal fold, departure time corrected in blue pencil; not examined out of period frame. Boston, 15 July 1873
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The official scheduled passenger service to Provincetown (at the tip of Cape Cod) began on 23 July 1873. However, a special excursion train ran out the day before for a celebration: "It is expected that the Governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and other distinguished gentlemen, will be present. A Dinner will be served by the citizens under a Mammoth Tent, on High Pole Hill."

Passenger service to Provincetown continued through 1938. We trace no other examples of this broadside.

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