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
United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.)
printer
still image
Graphic
Ephemera -- 1840-1850
Forms (Documents) -- 1840-1850
Relief prints -- 1840-1850
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
United States Job Printing Office, Ledger Building
[ca. 1850]
1850
monographic
eng
1 print: relief; 11 x 20 cm. (4.5 x 7.75 in.)
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.
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.
Forms part of Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection.
Adams Express Company
Express service
United states
Bills of lading
Forms
Carts & wagons
Railroads
Vessels
Pennsylvania
Commerce
Washington (D.C.)
P.2011.10.116
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.116]
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