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Item #010070 1858-1885 – Collection of letters and way bills related to the stage and steamboat...

1858-1885 – Collection of letters and way bills related to the stage and steamboat transportation system developed by the father of Florida tourism

Various Florida locations. Unbound. Five items related to Hubbard L. Hart. Includes two letters sent to Hart and three partially printed Way-Bills from Hart’s Florida Stage Line that ran from Pilatka to Tampa with connecting steam boat service to Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, and Key West; one of the way..... More

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Item #009846 1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John...

1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John “Johnnie” Ware, enclosed in its original rare ‘internal’ Pony Express envelope

“Kill the rattlesnake. Keep his musical bones as a trophy, then throw him over the wall. It does one’s soul good . . . to see the Southerners transepted in this section where they have bullied over [us] so long with dirk and bludgeon”.

San Francisco: June 12, 1861. Envelope or Cover. California politics had long been dominated by pro-slavery Democrats until the presidential campaign of 1860 when their party split into two factions, one led by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and the other by Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. This schism allowed the..... More

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