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![[George B. Cheever] / Miles St. John [engraver] / Stereotyped by J.S. Redfield, DEACON GILES’ DISTILLERY. New York: [George Cheever], [ca. 1835].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM4473-Deacon-Giles-Distillery_lowres--150x150.jpg)
Likely a unique variant of a fantastic temperance broadside that led to the author’s imprisonment for libel. According to American National Biography, “[George B.] Cheever joined the temperance reform movement in 1833; two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery. The essay, cast in the […]
![[Anonymous], A Front VIEW of YALE-COLLEGE, and the COLLEGE CHAPEL, NEW HAVEN. [:] A compendious History of Yale-College, and a general Account of the Course of Studies pursued by the Students. New Haven: Daniel Bowen, [1786].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BRM4324-Bowen-Yale-College-1786_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An appealing, informative and extremely rare woodcut view of Yale, one of the earliest extant views of the institution. With provenance to one of America’s greatest collectors and one of its greatest dealers of the 20th century. The woodcut is a low-level architectural profile taken from a vantage point on New Haven Green and looks […]
An early and very rare broadside advertisement promoting a Boston-Albany rail connection. The railroad craze came relatively early to Massachusetts. By the late 1820s a number of lines had been proposed, including the Boston & Worcester Railroad and a Western Railroad linking Worcester and Albany. Backers hoped the legislature would step in and fund the projects for the greater good. This […]
![George S. Harris, Land Commissioner, H. & St. Jo. R. R., Hannibal, Mo. / Matthews & Warren, Commercial Advertiser Printing House, Buffalo, MISSOURI IS FREE! FARMS AND HOMES IN NORTHERN MISSOURI! Hannibal AND St. Joseph R.R. OFFERS FOR SALE NEARLY 500,000 ACRES OF THE BEST PRAIRIE, TIMBER AND COAL LANDS IN THE WEST! NP, ND [but ca. 1866-68].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3214-Hannibal-St-Joseph_lowres-e1547676757544-150x150.jpg)
A rare, vibrantly-colored, and frankly, spectacular broadside promoting the sale of Missouri lands owned by the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad was formed in 1846, at a meeting in the Hannibal, Missouri law office of Mark Twain’s father John Marshall Clemens. Construction began in 1851, and when completed in […]
This large, informative and surprisingly scarce broadside was an official document published by the Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration. The Board provided both regulation and technical support to the state’s agricultural sector while promoting its advantages to the rest of the country. For the decade beginning in 1896 its Commissioner was Jordan Gray Lee […]
![Times Steam Job Office, Cincinnati Weekly Times A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Adapted to the Wants of the People of the United States. Cincinnati: Times Company, [1873].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3208-Cincinnati-Weekly-Times_lowres-e1547759938468-150x150.jpg)
A spectacular and unrecorded four-color broadside issued in 1873 by the Cincinnati Weekly Times, using patriotic imagery to promote its ambitions as “A National Newspaper.” The broadside touts the Times as “a national paper adapted to the wants of the people of all the United States.” It emphasizes the point with a variety of patriotic […]
![Printed by John Poulson, Approaching Solar Eclipse. Philadelphia, [June 1806].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BRM3527-Approaching-Solar-Eclipse_lowres-scaled-e1588803109549-150x150.jpg)
An impressive 1806 astronomical broadside alerting Philadelphia-area residents to an upcoming solar eclipse, illustrated by a large woodcut diagram. Viewers in Philadelphia experienced the eclipse as only partial, though their compatriots in parts of New England and New York were treated to a “total obscuration of the solar disk”. Printed by newspaper publisher John Poulson […]
A powerful 1863 broadside marshaling recent events, statistics and a striking persuasive map to demonstrate recent progress of the Union armies in the field and forcefully rebut Copperhead attacks on the Union war effort. This broadside was probably issued at a high point for the Union in the late Summer of 1863, following among other […]
A terrific and very rare broadside celebrating the technology of the submarine telegraph and the laying of the second Transatlantic Cable in 1866. After a number of failed attempts, in early August 1858 Cyrus Field’s Atlantic Telegraph Company finished laying the first transatlantic cable between Ireland’s Valencia Bay and Trinity Bay in Newfoundland. The first […]
A rare and very handsome cartographic advertising broadside for the self-proclaimed “largest horse dealers in the world,” executed by the era’s foremost printer of chromolithographic maps. The firm of Fiss, Doerr & Carroll was formed in 1896 by the merger of horse dealers Fiss & Doerr and Carroll & Connelly. In an 1897 interview with the […]