Search Results: Railroads from R & A Petrilla

1884. Original document. Very Good. One page, quarto, 15 lines in sepia ink on Pennsylvania Railroad letterhead. In part: "I believe you are President of the Princeton and Kingston Branch Turnpike Company, and an Agreement has been entered into between that Co. and the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company for the erection of Poles and Wires...." Signed, Charles E. Pugh with an R in a circle [secretarial signature?]. 10.25" x 8" Perrine (1815-1889) served as New Jersey's Quartermaster General during the Civil War.

Baltimore, MD: Baltimore & Ohio R.R., 1928. Original edition. Near Fine. Broadside, printed in sepia ink on white paper; airplane view of capitol. 18" x 6" Below the photo-view of the capitol is the timetable of stations between New York and Washington, followed by places of interest in Washington: Congressional Library, Capitol, Washington Monument, Soldiers' Home, Lincoln Memorial, National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Quaint Old Georgetown, Rock Creek Park, &c. In Baltimore, "Beautiful Parks and Suburbs.

Baltimore, MD: Baltimore & Ohio R.R., 1928. Original edition. Near Fine. Broadside, printed in blue ink on white paper. 18" x 6" Under the photo-view, "Along the Youghiogheny River in the Alleghenies," is the timetable of stations between New York and Plainfield, NJ, followed by places of interest at Pittsburgh: Schenley Park, Carnegie Institute, Museum and Art Gallery, Highland Park, Zoological Gardens. Illustrated by view of Youghiogheny River.

New York: Workers Federation Bureau of America, 1925. Third Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp, including organizational charts and list of publications. Bound in printed brown wrappers, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 7.5" x 5.5" Matthew Woll was President, International Photo Engravers Union, and Vice-president, American Federation of Labor.

Paris: Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, 1918. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. Fine. 20pp; centerspread map in color, two color plates, illus throughout from photographs. 10.25" x 7.25" A handsome travel brochure.

Annapolis, MD, 1860. First Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. 4 pages. 13.25" x 8" Issued to The Hon. J.H. Gordon. This bill authorizes the President and Directors of the Northern Central Railway Company to increase company stock to $8 million in shares of $50 each. The Northern Central was formed by consolidation of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Co. with the York and Maryland Line Railroad Co., the York and Cumberland Railroad Co., and the Susquehanna Railroad Co.

Boston: Boston & Albany RR, 1870. First Edition. Very Good. Broadside, 6.75" x 7.5" [Not recorded by WorldCat.].

Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Ass'n, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 28pp. Contents: The cost of transportation of western farm products; The price of steel rails; The tariff on wool and woolens; The tariff on cotton goods; The dairymen and the tariff; A tariff reminiscence; The duty on cotton ties; Wages and living in Lancashire and Massachusetts; The so-called oppressions of the tariff. Bound in printed pink wrappers; rear cover gone. Removed from a nonce volume. 8.75" x 5.5

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 47, (1), including an index to the Constitution and an index of labor literature. Bound in printed blue wrappers, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 5.75" x 3.5" [Not found in OCLC.].

Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).

Newton, MA: Crofton Publ Co, nd. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. pp: (viii), 299 with appendices and index, 23 legal case references. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" This Bibliography of the Union Pacific System comprises two parts: I-Union Pacific Railroad; II-Oregon Short LIne Railroad.

Pittsburgh: Mellon Bank, 1944. Original edition. Very Good. Printed in green and black inks on bond paper. At the top is an engraved scene of a locomotive and several cars in a rail yard, with black and white men at work on the tracks. On the verso is the title panel, a Pennsylvania Railroad Company legal notice, and an unused registration form. Never folded. 15" x 9.75

1898. Good. Printed in display type and regular type, accomplished by hand, signed by Henry P. Perrine and witnessed. 7" x 8.5". Perforated by two large "PAID" stamps. Perrine, a West Point graduate, served with the 6th US Cavalry Regiment, 1871-1875, on frontier duty at Fort Riley, Kansas.

New York: Published by the author, 1860. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Fair. (32)pp; 11 illustrations, birdseye view on back cover showing the Newark Terminal of the New York, Harlaem [sic] & Albany Railroad. Bound in printed tan wrappers; dampmark to cover and first several leaves. 9" x 5.75" Contents: Our Agency and Publication; Boyden's and Lightner's Plans of Car Boxes; Imlay's Car-Spring Arrangement; Remarks on Imlay's Patent; List of Patents for Railway Purposes.

Corinne, Utah: Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1969. Original edition. Very Good. Three-piece fan, printed on card stock, opens to reveal a photograph of the Driving of the Golden Spike, May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah. 7" x 10.5" Commemorates the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Hartford: Trolley Press, 1912. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 144pp; illustrated throughout text with photographs and maps, foldout map at centerfold. Pictorial stiff wrappers. 6.75" x 4.5" Full of information on travel by trolley, train and steamboat, with route maps and pictures of hotels, &c. [WorldCat reports only the British Library and Williams College holdings of this book.].

Philadelphia: Printed by Deacon & Peterson, 1854. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 61pp. Printed tan wrappers. 9" x 5.75" Has much on rail lines to move goods, including the Guage Law which required all railways built in Pennsylvania to conform to a certain track width.

Atlantic City, NJ: AC RR Co, 1928. Original editions. Very Good. Two printed passes, accomplished by typewriter. Issued to Kennard W. Gregory, a Reading Company transitman, residing in Philadelphia. Both issued December 16, 1928. The first, #AF85265 is for passage from Atlantic City to Philadelphia. The second, #AF85269 covers a trip from Hammonton, NJ to Philadelphia. Both were good until December 16, 1928. Signed in ink at the lower right by Kennard W. Gregory. 3.5" x 5" Printed on yellow stock with an elaborate background design. [An online ancestry source reports that Kennard W. Gregory of Philadelphia lived from 1885 to 1951, and married Maud B. Stevenson of that city.].

St. Albans, Vermont, 1882. Original manuscript. Very Good. Two letters, each one page on CVR letterhead. The letter signed by E.A. Chittenden, Superintendent of Local Freight Traffic, is re tariff and a shipment of sleds. The letter from the General Superintendent tells one H.R. Barney, Agent at Chester, Vermont, to increase his father's pay to $1.20 a day. 10.5" x 8

New York: American Bank Note Co, 1887. First Edition. Very Good. Broadsheet, printed in black ink on buff stock, opens to 12.25" x 25.5". Includes an inset map (5.75" x 8.75") and a long paragraph of text on Chautauqua Lake. Folds to 6" x 3.25" with different illustrations of Niagara Falls on both cover panels. Dated "August 21, 1887. Corrected to Sept. 18." [Not found in OCLC nor WorldCat.].