Black Valley Rail Road

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Black Valley Rail Road
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Publisher (American, 1811 – 1889)
Datepublished 1863
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 10 15/16 × 19 1/2 in. (27.8 × 49.5 cm) Sheet: 16 1/4 in. × 24 in. (41.3 × 61 cm) Mat: 20 5/16 × 27 1/8 in. (51.6 × 68.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.135
Not on view
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Signature Signature in typeset at lower center: PUBLISHED BY S.W. HANKS, 13 CORNHILL, BOSTON.
Inscribed Inscribed in typeset at lower center: BLACK VALLEY RAIL ROAD. / GREAT CENTRAL FAST ROUTE. / ACCIDENTS BY COLLISIONS ENTIRELY AVOIDED AS NO UP-TRAINS ARE RUN OVER THE ROAD.; in typeset at lower center: N.E. LITH. STEAM PTG. CO. CHAUNCY ST. BOSTON; in typeset at lower center: PUBLISHED BY S.W. HANKS, 13 CORNHILL, BOSTON. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by S.W. HANKS, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.; in pencil on verso at lower left: HC 131
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