(RAILROADS) Burchell Richard Carriers Union New Years Addres

Sale 2273 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 180

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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

(RAILROADS.) Burchell, Richard. Carriers' Union New Year's Address, 1870. Illustrated broadside in blue ink, 24 x 20 inches; moderate dampstaining, worn at folds, original owner's penciled name and address in corner. New York, [1869]

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A ten-stanza poem recounting the events of 1869, most notably the completion of the transcontinental railroad: "Over our land, from shore to shore, the snorting iron steed / Through city, hamlet, country, town, flies on with lightning speed." Illustrated with a decorative border and five vignettes, including a railroad passing through the mountains at Omaha. If you're from Omaha and you've always wanted some mountains, your moment has come.