important bound happy lands low (4 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 20 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Printed broadside on tan paper. Small stain to the lower left corner, small marginal chip at the upper right hand corner. This example has a faint oval purple stamp over the three railroads from one Henry H. Hannah, Land Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio. "TEXAS AND ARKANSAS | Guides, Land Circulars." with the rest indistinct. A second partial stamp in the lower margin with "Henry H. Hannah, Land Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio" A land advertising broadside with central vignette of an aerial perspective map showing Texas, Akransas, Missouri and St. Louis. The railways are promoting "a large grant of lands from the United States Government, embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming, Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes. The railroad passes through the middle of the grant, from end to end, most conveniently. Six navigable streams traverse this land grant.The Company sells at low prices on liberal terms, giving the man of small means a chance to buy, improve and pay for his land from the products of the soil." (from a paragraph towards the bottom of the broadside). OCLC locates six copies, at Yale, SMU, Michigan, U Missouri, UT Arlington, and Truman State.

An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis, through Arkansas and into Texas, beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears, all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included, as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri, one in Illinois, and one in Arkansas. The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government, embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming, Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods, having Roads, Mills, Churches and Schools, and peopled by honest and industrious citizens, who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records, located at Yale, SMU, Michigan, the University of Texas at Arlington, Truman State, and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. OCLC 22160865, 166641127, 702349761, 761878887. Old center horizontal fold, small chip to left edge, slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped.

Broadside. Condición: Very Good. Broadside advertising the route of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with small relief map of the railroad route through Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. No publication date but likely 1870s-1880s. Two faded rubber stamps for the land agent Henry H. Hannan of Swan Creek, Ohio. Broadside has a ½" piece missing on left edge and two 1 ½" stains. Has not been examined out of shrink wrap. Includes a list of rates for round trip and one way tickets and information for settlers about railroad land grants. Copies found at University of Texas, Arlington, Yale, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, Southern Methodist Univ. and Truman State. ; 20 ¾" x 7".

Broadside with map, 17.5 x 53 cm. Stamp of "Henry H. Hannan Land Agent Swan Creek, Ohio" in lower margin. A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company's land grant and elsewhere. Promising the "shortest and quickest route" to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the "liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in Arkansas and Eastern Missouri." Appearing in the center within a star-studded circular border is a map of the railway above which hovers a winged train wheel with a setting sun in the background, accompanied by the phrase "For the Happy Bound Lands." Text on the wings reads "rapid transit" and "easy transit." The map shows the railway extending as far as Auston, Dallas, and Sherman, Texas. Advertised here are both one-way and round trip tickets for land explorers, with rates from various cities provided in two tables. Destinations named include Ironton (U. S. Land Office), Dexter, Mo., Poplar Bluff, Mo., Walnut Ridge, Ark., Judsonia, Ark., and Little Rock. Text at the bottom explains that the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway currently has a large grant of lands from the U.S. Government, "embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming, Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes." The railroad is described as passing through the middle of the grant, from end to end, with six navigable streams traversing the grant. The grant, it is noted, "was made more than twenty years ago, and the lands have been withheld from market until the completion of the railroad. In the meantime, adjoining alternative sections have been taken up and the country settled. Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods, having Roads, Mills, Churches and Schools, and peopled by honest and industrious citizens, who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them. Peace, good order and good feeling prevail throughout the State." The names and addresses of three land agents appear at the bottom. WorldCat records 5 copies. CONDITION: Bit of chipping at margins, old horizontal fold, small dampstain in left margin.