TAKE THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. THE SHORTEST, BEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE FROM CINCINNATI TO ST. LOUIS, TEXAS, AND THE GREAT WEST! [cover Title]; W.W. Peabody, General Superintendent; C.S. Cone, Jr., Gen'l Tk't Ag't, St. Louis -

(Cinncinnati, OH): The railway, 1878. Map, timetable, and promotional. Broadsheet on light brown paper, 13 x 27 inches, folded to 16mo, recto with 16 panels of timetables and ads, verso printing a "Map of the Great Air Line route, Ohio & Mississippi Railway and Connections." The map shows the existing and proposed railway line from the Midwest, centering on Cincinnati, to St. Louis, and from there, south to Texas, west through Kansas to Dakota, and north to St. Paul, advertising "Only 12 Hours from Cincinnati to St. Louis! Elegant Day Coaches and Parlor Cars on Day Trains. Pullman Sleeping Cars on Night Trains from Cincinnati to St. Louis! Without change"; "Trains are run by Vincennes Time, which is 12 minutes slower than Cincinnati Time." Oval stamp of the Land and Emigration Agent Henry H. Hannon of Swan Creek, Ohio, along a side of the map. OCLC locates three copies (Texas-Arlington, Toledo/Lucas Co. Public, Miami). Several small separations at corner folds, but a very good example. Original printed wrappers. (#7558).