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This broadside promotes an express passenger route from Atchison and Kansas City, Kansas, to Leadville, Colorado, by way of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. The poster also mentions Pueblo, Denver, and Canon City, Colorado; the Great Bonanza Camp; the Glorious Grand Canon of the Arkansas [river]; the Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad; the Gunnison and San Jaun rivers; and the Great "Santa Fe Trail" route. The poster may have ben printed on August 7, 1880.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Date: 1880
Item Number: 212680
Call Number: K Port 385 Scrapbook Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212680
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying - Silver
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Denver & Rio Grande
Business and Industry - Railroad - Passenger trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Special and excursion trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Tourism
Collections - Library
Date - 1880s - 1880
Environment - Natural resources - Silver
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Poster
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Poster
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Colorado - Canon City
Places - Other States - Colorado - Denver
Places - Other States - Colorado - Leadville
Places - Other States - Colorado - Pueblo
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Denver & Rio Grande
Transportation - Railroads - Passenger trains
Transportation - Railroads - Special & excursion trains
Transportation - Railroads - Tourism
Type of Material - Printed materials - Posters
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