Archives International Auctions Auction 85 May 23, 2023

Archives International Auctions - Sale 85 85 April 4, 2023 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com EPHEMERA - CIVIL WAR ERA SOCIAL & FRATERNAL INVITATIONS & PROGRAMS Vermont 435 435 Civil War Era Dance Programs, Invitations, and Cards, ca.1861 to 1889 Vermont, ca.1861-89. Lot of 6 Civil War Era Collection of Programs, Invitations, and Cards, Includes: Military and Civic Levee to the Offices of the 1st Regiment Vermont Cavalry card printed on cardstock; 1861, Burlington, Vermont. Grand Military and Civic Ball to the Officers of the 8th Regiment V. V. M. program, printed on coated stock card; Thanksgiving Assembly Program for 1865 & 1866; Invitation to attend J.F. Burrows Anniversary Dance, 1867; Department of Vermont in Memoriam program, 1889. Pieces are in VF to XF condition. (6). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. �� Est. $200-350 EPHEMERA - CIVIL WAR GENERALS Kentucky 436 436 Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad Co. 1882 I/C Stock Certificate ITASB Confederate Civil War General John Echols. Kentucky, 1882. 2 Shares I/C Capital Stock Certificate #21, Black text with black border, small illustration of train at center. VF condition, POCs, and staining at left where counterfoil attached. Issued to and signed by John Echols (1823-1896), who was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, Echols resumed the practice of law in Staunton, Virginia. He helped select the members of the Committee of Nine, a group of state leaders who worked to ensure that the state be readmitted into the Union and former Confederates could once again hold political office. He went on to become president of the Staunton National Valley Bank, and also served as the Receiver and General Manager of the bankrupt Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad. The back is signed by Echols with the paragraph that the stock certificate is being transferred to C.P. Huntington. �� Est. $150-300 EPHEMERA - COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION New York 437 437 World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 Manhattan Day Railroad Pass on the “John Bull” train and Saint Nicholas Society, Naval Review Ribbon. New York, 1893. Lot of 2 items, Includes: A Ribbon from the Saint Nicholas Society, Columbian Celebration Naval Review, April 27, 1893; and, Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Lines, I/C Ticket for the “John Bull” Train. John Bull is a historic British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution ran it under its own steam in 1981. Built by Robert Stephenson and Company, it was initially purchased by and operated for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad in New Jersey, which gave it the number 1 and its first name, “Stevens”. (Robert L. Stevens was president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad at the time.) The C&A used it heavily from 1833 until 1866, when it was removed from active service and placed in storage. After the C&A’s assets were acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1871, the PRR refurbished and operated the locomotive a few times for public displays: it was fired up for the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and again for the National Railway Appliance Exhibition in 1883. In 1884 it was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution as the museum’s first major industrial exhibit. (2). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. �� Est. $100-200 EPHEMERA - EARLY POOR’S RAILROAD MANUALS 438 438 Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the U.S. Pair of Books, 1872-1873 and 1873-1874 New York, 1872-74. Lot of 2 Manuals of US Railroads, The first is intact and the second has a broken spine, Both books are filled with numerous illustrated advertisements of the time and have extensive information about railroads and related industries. (2) Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. �� Est. $150-300