(RAILROADS) Group of railroad manuscripts and ephemera

Sale 2287 - Lot 426

Price Realized: $ 2,000

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(RAILROADS.) Group of railroad manuscripts and ephemera. Approximately 130 items, various sizes and conditions. (JMR) Vp, circa 1840-1971

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The bulk of this lot relates to railroads in New York and New Jersey in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes: "Certificate of Location of one of the Sections of the Line Course or Way of the New York and Erie Rail Road, Lying in the County of Orange," manuscript document signed by 15 parties, 10 September 1841 Broadside for Erie Railway excursion to Philadelphia, 1876 Small illustrated broadside, "Hudson River Railroad Fall Arrangement, New York to and From Albany & Troy," 3 October 1853 Illustrated handbill for the Troy, Ballston & Saratoga, 1 May 1841 "Rates of toll for the Williamsport & Elmira Rail Road," broadside with manuscript notes, 1840 Numerous timetables from the 1850s through 1870s 4 stock certificates, 1861-1873 Accident report for the West Shore Railroad, 1894 "Erie Railway Tourist" pamphlet in illustrated wrappers, 1874 and much more. No fuller inventory is available.