Details
Contributor Allen, Lane & Scott, printer.
Title The Philadelphia & Chester Valley Railroad Company. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1888
Date [ca. 1888]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph; sheet 23 x 40 cm.(9 x 162 in.), folded to 23 x 30 cm.(9 x 12 in.)
Description Stock certificate for the railroad chartered in 1850 as the Chester Valley Railroad Company. Contains central vignette showing a train, including a "U.S. Mail" car, traveling through countryside. A steamboat travels on a river in the background. Company reincorporated as Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad company in 1888. The train operated between Philadelphia and Downingtown.
Notes Pictorial details printed above title labeled "Number 191" and "Shares."
Contains ornamental border. Printed within border: Shares $50 Each.
Transfer agreement printed in letterpress on verso. Includes monogram "L.S."
Reissue statements dated "188_" printed on flap.
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.
Allen, Lane & Scott partnered by 1875.
Subject Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad Company.
Railroads.
Steamboats.
Genre Stock certificates -- 1870-1880.
Transfer lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.180]
Accession number P.2011.10.180