MAGNIFICENT RAILROAD ARCHIVE: A valuable collection containing many documents, 123 black and white photographs, and numerous maps. Each photograph is attached to an 8 x 5 index card with typewritten explanation and date; all maps are in fine condition

1. (Broadside). Spring arrangements. Fare reduced! The Michigan Central Rail Road offices. Dated May 8, 1854. Sets forth fares from Chicago to various cities, as well as times trains leave Chicago and the length of their journey.

2. (Pamphlet). Lincoln on the New Haven and the Boston & Albany Railroads. Issued by the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts. February, 1934. 8vo. Original printed wrappers.

3. (Broadside). The best thing in the west. The rich valley lands of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, situated on the beautiful Cottonwood and Arkansas Rivers, in Southwestern Kansas. 2,500,000 acres for sale on eleven years' credit. . . . Topeka, Kansas: Geo. W. Martin, Kansas Publishing House, [n.d.]. Fantastic illustrations touting the wonderful opportunities of the Cottonwood and Arkansas Valleys.

4. (Photographs). 123 black and white photographs, each attached to a 8 x 5 inch index card with typewritten explanation and date. Photographs dated from mid-1930's (although there are a few earlier) to as late as 1959. Most are views of railroad cars, tracks or stations.

5. (Pamphlet). The first mortgage seven per cent. Gold bonds of the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington, and Pekin Railroad Company, with a copy of its charter and by-laws. August 1, 1869. New York: W.H. Arthur & Co., 1869. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With a large folding map.

6, 7. (Pamphlet). The Illinois Central Rail-Road Company offers for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected farming and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, to suit purchases, on long credits, and at low rates of interest. . . . New York: John W. Amerman, 1856. 8vo. Frontispiece outline map of Illinois. Plain wrappers, stapled as issued. A second copy included with some additions and a larger map.

8. Documents relating to the organization of the Illinois Central Rail-Road Company. New York: Geo. S. Roe, 1851. 4to. Printed on blue paper. Half-calf over pebbled cloth, spine and corners worn. First edition of this very scarce compilation. Includes a folding copy of the Construction Bond issued by the Illinois Central Rail-Road Company dated April 1, 1851, and a large folding "New sectional map of the State of Illinois" by J.M. Peck, John Messinger, and A.J. Mathewson. Published by S.H. Colton & Co., New York, 1852.

9. BROWN, Wm. H. History of the first locomotives in America. Popular edition. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1877]. With 7 plates (4 folding). Original printed wrappers.

10. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating . . . the report of Major D. Fergusson on the country, its resources, and the route between Tucson and Lobos Bay. March 14, 1863. 8vo. With 3 folding lithographed map. Disbound. 37th Congress, Special Session, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1 [Washington, D.C.] 1863. First edition. Significant report of a military reconnaissance expedition ordered to investigate a potential western terminus for a southern transcontinental railroad, and the concomitant need for acquiring additional territory from Mexico. The maps are "La Libertad," a Mexican port on the Gulf of California, taken from an 1861 Mexican map; a "Sketch of Lobos Bay" drawn under the direction of Major Fergusson; and "Head Quarters Department of New Mexico," showing the southwest United States and the northwest of Mexico, including portions of Baja California and the Gulf of California. Graff 1306; Howes F87; Wagner-Camp IV:387.

11. [LINCOLN, Abraham]. Abraham Lincoln as attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad Company. [Chicago]: Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1905. Folio. Original publisher's pebbled cloth. First edition, first issue (May, 1905), number 140 of 200 copies. This keepsake from the Railroad Company contains illustrations and facsimiles of Company-related documents. The text provides details of certain legal issues and cases in which Lincoln was involved on behalf of the Company. Monaghan, 1447.

12. Railway guide with popular routes for summer and winter tourists. [Chicago]: A.T. Sears & E. Webster, [1880]. 8vo. Profusely illustrated in the text with views, scenery and maps. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition of the third volume of this publication, compliments of the "General Ticket and Passenger Agent, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway." It is in essence a tourist's guide, covering the United States from Colorado to Florida, with numerous illustrations and maps.