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Example of a business stationery or letterhead of a Nineteenth century business concern in Philadelphia indicating that at the time Philadelphia was a leading center for scientific, engineering, surveying and astronomical instrument making.

The tragedy of the locomotive plunging off the Tay Bridge in December 1879 due to gale force winds greatly affected the citizens of Dundee, Scotland - the destination of the North British Railway train traveling from Edinburgh. It is this loss that is the topic of this broadside. Many citizens of Dundee became poets trying to assuage their feelings of loss and wrote expressive poetry that was published in the form of broadside songs.

Interesting insight to the westward expansion of the canal systems in Nineteenth century United States and the specifications that were determined for necessary structures to cross the canals. A particular bridge, the Rock Island railroad bridge, the first to span the Mississippi River, is of historic importance because of the connection to Abraham Lincoln.