This broadside announces the service and schedule of the Union Telegraph stage line between Albany, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts. A steamboat, one of the stage’s competitors, is pictured in the background of the engraving. Ironically, the first American railroad began operation in the year that this broadside appeared. Within a decade, railroads would overtake the stagecoach as the dominant form of public transportation in the Northeast.
John H. Hall. Union Telegraph Line. Broadside/Poster. 1831. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1999-13-510/. Accessed on December 7, 2024.
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