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Contributor United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Title Adams & Co's express. Eastern, Western, and Northern package express, for the conveyance of merchandise, specie, baggage, &c, &c, and insurance effected, whenever required on any package, to its full amount of value. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: United States Job Printing Office, Ledger Building
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: relief; 11 x 20 cm. (4.5 x 7.75 in.)
Description Bill of lading for the Philadelphia branch (est. circa 1843) of the rail express service company started by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840. Contains vignette showing an "Adams & Co. Express" train crossing over a stone bridge under which a horse-drawn wagon travels. In the background, a ship sails and in the foreground, two men watch the train from a valley.
Notes Name of proprietors (Alvin Adams, W.B. Dinsmore, E. S. Sanford, E. S. Shoemaker) and office locations (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond) printed below and to side of image.
Contains N.B. explicating that Adams & Co. are "alone responsible for the loss or injury of any article or property of any description entrusted to their care..."
Completed in manuscript for J. S. Myers shipping one tin box to Wm. Gadsby, Washington, DC., dated March 17, 1852, signed: For the Proprietors, [D Nussing?].
Numeric calculations inscribed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Small section of bottom edge torn off.
Subject Adams Express Company.
Express service -- United states.
Bills of lading -- Forms.
Carts & wagons.
Railroads.
Vessels.
Geographic subject Pennsylvania -- Commerce -- Washington (D.C.)
Genre Ephemera -- 1840-1850.
Forms (Documents) -- 1840-1850.
Relief prints -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.116]
Accession number P.2011.10.116