The GREAT PROVIDENCE LINE. Between New York & Boston.
Buffalo & Chicago: Phoenix Lithograph Co., (n. d.). Ca 1877. 1 sheet, printed both sides. 2 publisher horizontal fold-lines. Recto with 3 color lithographs, "The Palace Depot of the World", "The Palace Steamer of the World", & "The Finest Route to All Points East." Sheet: 10-5/8" x 6-13/16". Printed self-wrappers. Abrasions & chipping at edges, perhaps evidence of prior mounting (affects caption lettering at bottom). 1/2" splt along one fold. A VG copy. Item #33509
This pamphlet announces the May1st 1877 re-opening of the NYC - Boston transit which combined sea & rail, having ceased operation 30 years earlier. In this updated iteration, 2 steamboats, the Massachusetts (newly constructed) and the Rhode Island ("Queen of the Sound") plied the waters between Pier 29, North River, NYC & Fox Point Wharf, Providence. From Providence to Boston was accomplished via rail, 42 miles in "60 minutes".
Per an 1880 New York Times notice, the steamers were "magificent", and the rail ride was judged "one of the smoothest".
Scarce bit of ephemera documenting this popular New England transit route.
Price: $375.00