Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!

Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Good. Backed with archival tissue. Some fill repairs. Fold reinforcement. Size 18.25 x 31.5 Inches. A striking 1878 promotional map broadsheet issued to promote travel on the St. Louis and Texas Short Line. Two Maps Two maps on one sheet, this broadside both focuses on the Texas Short Line and the broader regional context. The smaller map, at right, illustrates the eastern United States with the route of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway highlighted. A second much larger map, occupying the left, provides a detail view of the Short Line noting all stops between Saint Louis and Texarkana, where it connects to other lines extending throughout Texas. The broadsheet is surrounded by advertising promoting the railroad as the shortest route from St. Louis, Missouri and Cairo, Illinois, to Texas, and offering 200lbs of luggage free to emigrant passengers. Advertisement for various services associated with the railroad appear on verso. St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ran thorough Missouri and Arkansas connecting St. Louis, Missouri and Cairo, Illinois with Texarkana, Texas. The railroad was established to transport Iron Ore from Iron Mountain, Missouri to St. Louis, leading it to be referred to as the Iron Mountain Railway. It expanded through several mergers around 1878 to reach Texas and was thus renamed the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. The railroad further expanded acquiring other connecting rail lines until 1883, when it was absorbed by the railroad tycoon Jay Gould's expanding network. In 1917, it merged with the Missouri Pacific, which in turn merged in 1982 with the Union Pacific. Publication History and Census This broadsheet map was published in 1878 by the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and engraved and printed by the St. Louis firm of Woodward, Tiernan, and Hale. We have identified examples in the Rumsey collection at Stanford and Princeton University. There are five sales records from 1997. References: OCLC 953571832. Rumsey 5233.001.…

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Title
Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!
Author
1878 St. Louis Texas Short Line Railroad Broadside: St. Louis to Texarkana
Publication year
1878
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TEXAS-OKLAHOMA-MAPS

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…

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