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Sheppard's Shippers' Guide to the South and West, embracing twenty-three states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, etc

Sheppard, J. S. · 1867 · 167 pictures

Sheppard's Shippers' Guide to the South and West, compiled by J. S. Sheppard in 1867, is a commercial directory of freight routes across twenty-three states, sold to merchants and shipping agents. Its pages carry wood-engraved advertising cuts of hoisting engines, cable winches, gearing and laundry mangles, with maker names cut into the block and dense line hatching usable as small industrial spot art.

British Library · HMNTS 10412.i.1. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)