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The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad is known as the best route... [Promotional Broadside]
Chicago: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., 1875. Good. Item #48055
Chicago: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. (16.5x33cm) printed in black. Stock worn, toned, and chipped, with a few instances of soiling, extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only.
Promotional broadside for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850–1970, largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831, before the company’s incorporation. (This broadside, however, was not issued until several decades later.) The extensive railway inspired the tune “Rock Island Line,” covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly.
No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May, 2026.
Price: $250.00