Folds and somewhat dingy appearance but beautiful graphic of a train.  Boston.  Old Colony and ? R R written in pencil.  Fall River

Receipt from Whitin & sons, dated 1860.  Whitin's Station. Folds and a small corner crease. 

Attractive graphics on this bill of lading from a company which later formed with other railroads, the last being the Southern Railroad Company.  Folds and can be sent in a regular first class envelope for a savings, if desired 

This is a very large page which measures 15 by 10 and a half inches.  The scan just shows a portion of it.  This is a record of items shipped by Passumpsic RR.  Example: "Parker & Howe 12 Books" Signed by W H Sargeant.  "1 Sewing Machine billed to Henry Webber."  Both side are full. No doubt this was torn out of a record book.  This was a steam train and there is not much on the web about it.

Fifteen 8 X 10 photos in a worn, leather bound booklet.  There are fifteen photographs, presumed complete.  I have not shown all of the photos, only one is is poor condition and that is the last one.  Each has typed information on the back of the photograph.  The first picture has the date of 1927. This would be a great addition for aa car collectors or salesman sample collector. I used my camera to quickly copy the photographs, which are not dark in person and each has great clarity. The last scan shows the actual appearance of the photographs.  I was able to scan this one as it was loose in the album.

This little program is the size of a double postcard.  Dated July 19, 1919.

This lot consists of ten cards showing balloons and zeppelins.  A few of the cards have some staining in the border but most do not.  No creases.  See scan.  Aviation Series #4, #5, #9, #11, #13 #14, #35, #38, #40 #43,   

Condition problems with this strip of  Stage tickets to the Southern Exposition in Louisville.  I think the damage was caused by water, particularly in the middle where it has bleached out and with a tear.  It is one long strip but I had to scan the front and bottom. 

Rag paper item which I was told was from 1840.  The only examples I could find on the web were in archives although a small cache was found recently. The graphics are wonderful, there is some acidic staining which is much heavier on the scan but still unsightly.  Could be bleached out by a paper restorer or someone who knows what they are doing.  The stock share measures 8 by 10 inches. 

Made out to Carhart & Curd, a hardware store in Macon Georgia.  Folds and dingy

This receipt is post war and a way bill, date Nov 7, 1865.  Blue rag paper which measures 6 by 7 and a half inches. Stain and general wear.  Evidently paper was still scarce as this has something on the back which is not relevant.  

The fate of John Luther (Casey) Jones is well known.  He was killed in a wreck at Vaughn Mississippi on April 30, 1900 while pulling the Illinois Central's passenger train No 1, The Cannonball Express. "His last words spoken were to his negro fireman, Sim Webb, when he said, "Jump Sim, jump" as he rode his locomotive 382 into the rear end of a freight train standing on the main line."  This paper item shows his wife, Mrs Casey Jones who is pictured on one side with a model of the 382 train "while making a personal appearance sponsored by St Francis County Railroad Club."    The card was given with a crochet made by Mrs. Janie Brady Jones which she has signed.  I assume that the widow was gathering funds for herself and her three children.  The card is slightly smaller than a postcard and is in excellent condition despite it being on cheap paper. I believe this to be a very rare item.

This is on rag paper and measures eight by four and a half inches.  Nice graphic of a rail road.  Made by Post Print in Athens Tennessee.   Small tear at bottom edge.

This circular announces that Gracey is appointed Division Freight Agent of the Memphis Line.  By V Vandenberg-General Freight Agent. Folds and corner crease.

I'm not sure what this box was used for. Note the scattered rust on the front and sides.  The bottom has heavy rust.  The box measures 5 by 3 and one half inches.  

This is a postcard .That's all I can read of the description in red at the bottom of the card.  1910 Cancel is from Oakland California.  Pencil writing on the front but minor wear to the card.

Two letters, one dated in 1867 and the other dated in 1868 from the General Superintendent's Office written by E W Cole. 

Exceptional clarity on this large photograph shrunk wrapped in a frame which has writing at the bottom, "Modern Steam Locomotive Power for the Tennessee Central Railroad by the American Locomotive Company."  Measures 26 and a half by 13 inches including the paper frame.  The shrink wrap has some bubbling as can be seen in the scan.  This is number 601 engine. 

One and a quarter inch celluloid button in good condition.   The three musketeers of the air where Hermann Koehl, James Fitzmaurice, and Baron Guenther von Huenefeld, who made the first transatlantic airplane crossing from east to west in a Junkers W33 on April 12-14, 1928. 

Mint condition on this railroad pass made out for "Col. V K Stephenson".  V K Stevenson  was active in creating the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and spent much of the middle and late 1840's promoting the connection of Middle Tennessee to the Atlantic South.  Although an important and productive man, he did not distinguish himself by fleeing Nashville after the fall of Fort Donelson when he was in charge of moving supplies out of the city.

I guess this is a shipment invoice.  Measures 12 by 4+ inches.  Multiple folds, some crumpling and creases, and dingy areas. 

dingy, slight musty smell and some crumpling.

Unused with some corner wear

Small, unused stationary with a nice graphic of this popular steamer that carried passengers and freight up and down the Hudson River for over 150 years. 

This Bill of Lading is for freight via Central Railroad of Georgia. Looks like it was sent by the Ocean Steamship Co of Savannah, New York ofiice to Augusta Georgia headed for Macon.  On the back is a map of the Savannah Fast Freight Line via the Ocean Steamship Co and Central Railroad of Georgia.  Eight and a half by eleven inches on slick paper.

This is a very early Bill of Lading for items sold by G W Mentz & Son, Philadelphia, "Shipped in Good Order and Condition" and now lying in the Port of Philadelphia and bound for New York.  Sent to the customer by way of a stampless cover.  Please view the scans to see the condition. 

Great old poster featuring an Indian motorcycle and a racer from the 1940's endorsing it.  Ted Edwards was endorsing the Model 249 Scout.  Overall foxing, one upper edge tear on the heavy stock paper.     

Fanny Harris was a regular packet.  Captain N F Webb.  The two paper items are glued together at the left hand edge, covering part of the second graphic bill of lading.  Small edge tear, some soot and spindle hole at top right edge.  Lorrain and Company. 

Thin rag broadside which measures fifteen by eight inches.  Folds and crumpled appearance.  Large ink spot in the middle and a white area to the left of Time Table, where I think someone tried to cover up an ink spot.  A couple of other spots that appear to have been doctored as well.  The paper is not attached to the board but a couple of stamp hinges at the top hold the broadside to the board.  Can be removed after mailing.  Nice graphic of a train.  J R Faulkner-Superintendent.  Printed in Rutland Vermont. 

Rare, rag journal which was printed in New York.  This volume 4, No 33.  Large front page graphic of the Avery Rotary Engine.  Dog ear and some foxing.  Complete.

This is a complete issue but begins with page 289 and goes through page 304.  Heavy rag paper with light foxing, heaviest on the front page. Heavy folds causing some smudging at the mid folds. Nice graphic masthead with an engraving of a train. This was a weekly publication from D K Minor Editor-Wall Street New York.  Has some content other than railroad news such as foreign and even reports from the Mexican War, including a lengthy list of promotions and appointments in the army.

I bought these two items together but don't know if they came together.  The first is a document dated 1857, "PI Douglass left 2nd 1857 Steam Ferry Boat North Star to George W Smith.  What follows in an invoice of the labor done in repairing ?saloon damaged by her while laying at the at the levee at Prescott on the 27th. Details given regarding the repair.  Folds with crumpling.  Next ins a small account book (measures five and a half inches by three and a half inches.  Ink writing Ferry Steam boat Utah.  Nine hand written pages.  First page is titled "Hastings Steam Ferry." Needs more research. The North Star belonged to the Hudson Bay Trade Company.

Partial cancel from Decatur with small advertising graphic which is rare to see on such an early cover This Rail-Road Bank operated from 1854-1861 in Indiana: Crawfordsville, Logansport  &Northern Indiana.

No date on this cover, back flap missing and see scan to view the condition.

Folds and some stains.  See scan. Nice color graphic

Notice that the order of thirty barrels of whiting were "shipped in good order and condition" to Philadelphia.  Blue rag paper with folds and other minor wear.

Two pages of a neat advertising letterhead but incomplete letter signed by J Richtman.  Super cover showing a steamboat with a cancel from Elsberry.  Business letter.

Three letterheads dated 1897, 1894, and 1904.  The 1904 letterhead is from A S Bozeman New Orleans & North-Eastenr Railroad Co and the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, all three part of the Queen & Crescent Route.  I'll leave it up to the railroad historians to know all the mergers that made up this route.  Please view the scans to see the condition.

 fold at bottom, some crumpling, and acidic right hand edge. NC&SL railroad. 

Please views the scans to see the condition on these envelopes.  One is from the Free Tire Service Co in Fort Wayne Texas but cancel reads Fort Wayne Indiana.  The other is from the Automobile College of Washington in DC.

Nice color map in shown on the back of the letterhead showing the route of the Seaboard Air Line Railway.  Folds as mailed.

Rock Island Route is shown on the back of the letterhead showing the connection of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway.  Staple holes on the upper left hand side and folds from being mailed. 

Page and a little on the blank backside signed by John B Pay?.  Attractive graphics showing the along with the  railroad along with the Burlington Steamboat. Stain is more prominent on the scan than on the sheet.

Here is part of the history found on the web regarding this small railroad.

The Rutland Railroad was a fabled system located in the New England area. Based out of Rutland, Vermont the railroad is best remembered for the large amount of milk and dairy products it moved over its system and its classic forest green and yellow livery. The railroad finally succumbed to a long battle of money troubles in the early 1960s when a strike collapsed any hope of the Rutland Railroad staying solvent as it shutdown operations in 1961. Today, happily, much of the former Rutland Railroad system is still operated by successor Green Mountain Railroad, which hauls both freight and excursion passenger service over the line, much to the delight of the thousands of passengers which arrive annually to ride aboard its popular trains.

Early railroad advertising letterhead for the Southern Railway company, which according to Wikipedia was a former United States railroad. It was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894. It was placed under control of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, along with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), in 1982, and was renamed Norfolk Southern Railway in 1990. (The N&W continued to exist as a subsidiary until 1997.) The back of the letterhead is the best part which shows a map of the railway lines for the company.
Age toning and an edge tear.

This invoice was printed on the back of another form. Post war item from a Railroad which was the target of much war activity. Grease spot on mid right hand edge. The original Mississippi Central line was chartered in 1852. Construction began in 1853 and the line was completed in 1860, just prior to the Civil War, from Canton, Mississippi to Jackson, Tennessee. The southern terminus of the line connected to the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad at Canton. It also connected to the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction, Tennessee and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson, Tennessee. The Mississippi Central was the scene of several military actions from 1862 - 1863 and was severely damaged during the fighting. Company president, Absolom M. West succeeded in repairing the damage and returning it to operating condition soon after the end of the War. The original Mississippi Central line was merged into the Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad in several transactions finally completed in 1878.

Scarce pass by a railroad that was not in existence very long. This attractive pass was used by Col VK Stevenson. Minor wear .Mint condition on this railroad pass made out for "Col. V K Stephenson".  V K Stevenson  was active in creating the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and spent much of the middle and late 1840's promoting the connection of Middle Tennessee to the Atlantic South.  Although an important and productive man, he did not distinguish himself by fleeing Nashville after the fall of Fort Donelson when he was in charge of moving supplies out of the city.

Photo measures 7 by 4 and a half inches and with mount 8 by 7 inches. On the back "J B Duncan and Crew" is written in pencil. I believe Duncan is the one on the train steps. This photo is related to a previous listing of a train wreck. Nice condition problem on the photo.

Four mounted albumen photographs of a wreck which occurred on November 18th in 1898. The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway was the train involved and Frank Duncan's name, pictured in another listing, is listed on the back. Dingy appearance but clarity is good in most of the shots which measure 4 by 5 inches.

Very nice clarity on this postcard sized photograph. Photographers note on the back says, Dec 7, 1893 and in another hand "touched up." I think the touch up refers to the dark line under the train which in ink wording that I can't read. This appears to be an orignial photograph which was not mounted.