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Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century

Excerpts from Disturnell’s New and Complete Railroad and Steamship Guide, 1857.

Excerpts from Disturnell’s New and Complete Railroad and Steamship Guide, 1857.

Citation Information: Excerpts from “Disturnell's new and complete railway and steamship guide : giving the railroad and steamboat routes, time, distances, fares, and connections, throughout the United States and Canada,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/965ccd48847dd26afc75564911f38790.

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Courtesy of University of Michigan via HathiTrust.

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An 1863 bond sold by the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.

A broadside advertising the Red Bird line as a travel alternative in “opposition to the railroad,” 1847.

An 1850 map with the title “Traveller’s Map of New England and Canada Showing all the Railroad, Steamboat, Canal and Stage Routes.”

Excerpts from Disturnell’s New and Complete Railroad and Steamship Guide, 1857.

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