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  • Black Valley rail road. Great central fast route

    Black Valley rail road. Great central fast route

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    Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Alcohol" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach lining in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at bottom left and right; train stops at destinations "Sippington" through to "Destruction" at left and right of image.

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  • Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

    Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

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    Image of a series of vignettes advocating temperance; scenes illustrating the adverse effects of alcohol and tobacco are contrasted with scenes showing the benefits of a life without; train at center labeled "Gin Fiend" heads toward "Tobacco Land" with demons around it and the devil beckoning from a hole in the ground, torch in hand; images of angels interspersed throughout; allegorical women at left and right symbolizing "Truth" and "Temperance."

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  • Good news for all new cash store at Olive Green fresh goods at prices suited to the war times

    Good news for all new cash store at Olive Green fresh goods at prices suited to the war times

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    Image of a train locomotive at a depot with wooden boxes and barrels of a cargo delivery visible; men, women, and children hail the train as it pulls in and text bubbles show favorable comments on the new stock being delivered.

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  • Hell

    Hell

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    Image of a scene from Hell, with people writhing in agony and suffering various punishments; demons, snakes, lizards, and dragons attack people, dozens of souls are goaded down a slope by demons into a fiery pit; several demons with horns dance around the Devil in the background at center.

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  • Bound for M. Hall's new store

    Bound for M. Hall's new store

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    Image of an advertisement for M. Hall's store in WInthrop, Maine; a horse pulling a train with many cargo cars pulls up to the Winthrop station guided by a man holding the reins seated on the top of the first train car; people eagerly await the train's arrival at the station; large American flag flies above the second train car.

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  • General map of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections

    General map of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections

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    Image of a map of most of the continental United States and part of Mexico showing the main routes and connecting lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with routes and railroad stations named; map verso contains 16 panels with railroad timetables, promotional descriptions, a vignette of the interior of a Pennsylvania Railroad Dining Car with well-dressed diners being served by African-American servers, a vignette of a Pullman sleeping car with passengers sitting in seats, including a woman reading and a girl, and inset with an image of a sleeping birth and a man shining shoes; folding map cover contains a vignette of a train on the Horseshoe Curve in the Allegheny Mountains and an American eagle with wings displayed standing on a shield with an "E Pluribus Unum" banner.

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