{"id":107,"date":"2011-09-19T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rring.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=107"},"modified":"2011-12-13T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:50:14","slug":"when-trains-moved-the-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/2011\/09\/19\/when-trains-moved-the-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"When Trains Moved the Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Associate Curator]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today while I was cataloging, two 19th century books about railroads crossed my desk.\u00a0 The first was a hefty tome called Rand McNally & Co.\u2019s Enlarged Business Atlas and Shippers\u2019 Guide<\/em> (1890).\u00a0 It has color maps of all the states, Canada, South and Central America showing all existing railroad lines.\u00a0 It also shows which express companies use which lines.\u00a0 Maps of all other countries are thrown in for \u201cready reference\u201d as well as maps of major cities and locations of railroad stations and post offices.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the 24th edition, which clues us into the fact that this atlas was highly useful to any shipping business in the western hemisphere.\u00a0 It also has full returns of the 1890 census.\u00a0 This comprehensive approach must have been as helpful in the 1890\u2019s as the web is for us today.\u00a0 And for us it is a snapshot into the business of shipping and the importance of railroads in the 1890\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The 2nd book on railroads covering an earlier period, Railway Economy (1850), gets a full description in the Bibliphiles\u2019 Lair (see http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/09\/14\/all-aboard-newly-acquired-book-on-railroads\/).\u00a0 Together the books give us a sense of what land transportation was like before the age of cars and air transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Associate Curator] Today while I was cataloging, two 19th century books about railroads crossed my desk.\u00a0 The first was a hefty tome called Rand McNally & Co.\u2019s Enlarged Business Atlas and Shippers\u2019 Guide (1890).\u00a0 It has color maps of all the states, Canada, South and Central America showing all existing railroad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}