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This brochure advertises the routes of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, with emphasis on accommodations, both passenger and freight, from the western states to the east. Specifically, the company claims such exclusive features as, "the quickest and best route to Kansas City, Leavenworth, St. Louis, Chicago, and all Atlantic seaboard cities"; Pullman cars on all through trains; and special rates for ore, wool, and hide shipments from Colorado and New Mexico. An etching of the Kansas Pacific Railway depot at Denver is featured, with the statement, "Remember, through tickets from Pueblo to all eastern points, are sold only via Kansas Pacific Railway. The only route running Pullman palace cars from Denver to the East. "This is the only line by which you can check your baggage through to all eastern cities." The reverse side of the brochure shows time tables for the Kansas Pacific Railway Company from Denver to Kansas City, and for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company from Canon City, Colorado to Denver, Colorado. There is also a map showing the routes from Cheyenne, Wyoming, Denver, Colorado and LaJunta, Colorado in the west, to Leavenworth, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri in the east. This map shows all of the railroad's stations between those point. The brochure was engraved and printed by Rand, McNally Company, Map Engravers, Chicago.
Creator: Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Date: 1875
Item Number: 213434
Call Number: Port. K 385 K13 no.16
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213434
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Depot
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Denver & Rio Grande
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Depots
Business and Industry - Railroad - Passenger trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Timetables
Collections - Library - Railroad Ports (K Port 385)
Date - 1880s - 1885
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Places - Other States - Colorado
Places - Other States - Illinois
Places - Other States - Indian Territory
Places - Other States - Iowa
Places - Other States - Missouri
Places - Other States - New Mexico
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Places - Other States - Wyoming
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Denver & Rio Grande
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Transportation - Railroads - Depots
Transportation - Railroads - Passenger trains
Transportation - Railroads - Timetables
Transportation - Railroads - Tracks
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Printed materials - Flyer
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