Report of the Watering Committee of the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia Relative to the Termination of the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road

 Thomas Hale; Frederick Graff; Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Watering Committee.; Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad.

Lydia R. Bailey, Philadelphia, 1830

Rebound in later blue cloth with paper spine label.  Includes very long, hand-colored fold out lithographic map at front.  The map has been reattached long one crease. Map in 2 pieces. 18 pages.  Sabin 62371. The 82 mile Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road (later incorporated into the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1857) was contemporaneous with the B&O Railroad, the earliest in America.  The railroad was made to compete with New York and Baltimore for Ohio commerce during the Jacksonian transportation revolution. It was builtin 1834 and ran from Philadelphia to Philadelphia to Columbia, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster county. 

The printer, Lydia Bailey, was a female commercial printer in Philadelphia during the hand press period.