Box SC Prints

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Example of stock certificates from companies with a history in the past carrying into the present. The engraved images on the certificates are artistically superb. Examples included Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, 13th and 15th Streets Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia, Allentown Hardware Company, United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Company,

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Publicity brochure for Atlantic City, N.J. Publication date inferred from images. Includes a depiction of the interior of the Galbreath Apothecary.

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Scope and Contents Titusville, Pennsylvania celebrated in 1934 the 75th anniversary of the first successful oil well drilled in the United States. The Drake Well produced the first commercial petroleum in the United States by drilling in oil seeps in the manner of salt well drillers. Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880) was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate for a suitable oil site in the oil seeps along the bank of Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania. In 1859 Drake became the first American...

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Nine black and white construction photographs of the Charles J. Arrigoni Bridge, a steel through arch bridge carrying Route 66 and Route 17 across the Connecticut River, connecting Middletown, CT to Portland, Connecticut.

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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.

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An extensive description of the virtues of this type of timber bridge describing all the strengthening connections and supports. The broadside particularly directs its appeal to committees planning for railroad or bridge building.

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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.

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Pen and ink drawing of Linderman Library entrance used in Lehigh publications, especially the Epitome 1931: https://archive.org/details/epitomeyearbook552lehi/page/n17/mode/1up

Abstract Example of stationery of a Nineteenth century business concern in Philadelphia indicating that at the time Philadelphia was a leading center for engineering, surveying and astronomical instruments. The item is a single invoice measuring 23.5 x 22 cm: upper left corner has a trade mark a transit within a scroll, beneath are the words engineering, surveying and astronomical instruments – terms net cash. The letterhead reads Philadelphia, …………….18…… Mr…….. Bought of Charles H. Brightly,...