(NEW YORK) Broadside for the Erie Canal Pilot Traders Line

Sale 2600 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 2,750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(NEW YORK.) Broadside for the Erie Canal Pilot & Traders Line. Letterpress broadside, 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, printed in black on white coated stock; minimal wear and toning at edges. Not examined out of modern frame. New York: James Van Norden, 1837

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This broadside (or perhaps you might call it an oversized trade card) solicited business for a fleet of 34 freight and passenger boats plying the Erie Canal, as well as its connecting services on the Ohio Canal and packet lines on the Great Lakes. Boats carrying parcels for the line left Manhattan daily at 5 p.m. for transport to the canal. The line's officers are listed, as well as the names of 40 commercial references in western New York, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond. None others traced in OCLC or at auction.