Please see the following. Is anyone familiar with the items or have any
information on same? If so, please let me know. I am trying to see what I
can find out for the LC. Thanks in advance.
Ken Currie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosemary Fry Plakas" <rpla@loc.gov>
To: <currieken@cybernet.it>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: CB&Q broadside
> Dear Ken Currie,
>
> Just browsed through your extensive bibliography on the CB&Q. Before I
> consult some of the listed histories, wondered if you have any
> information on two ephemeral items.
>
> LC has an 1888 copyright copy of a promotional play, " A Parody on
> Mikado," written by Edward J. Smith, set in a railroad station and
> depot gardens on the Burlington Route, with railroad employees and
> passengers as characters. It includes a map of the Burlington Route and
> illustrations of interiors of various train cars, and was copyrighted by
> A. C. Dawes, general passenger agent, Hannibal & St. Joseph and Kansas
> City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroads.
>
> I have on consignment a broadside that seems to compliment this play
> theme. Published in Chicago in 1886, this advertisement encourages
> travel to the west:" The Mikado's Uncle when in America, traveled over
> the Burlington Route. C. B. & Q. R. R. California Excursions of the
> Burlington Route to San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Pacific Coast,
> afford a rare opportunity for one to visit Australia, Japan, China and
> India. . ." The broadside is on Japanese paper and is illustrated by a
> large chromolithograph in the aesthetic style depicting cranes with
> fans, cherry tree branches and a bird trailing a "Burlington Route C B &
> Q R R" banner.
>
> Are you familiar with these items or know about the circumstances under
> which they were created? Any assistance you can provide would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rosemary Fry Plakas
> Curator of Rare Americana
> Rare Book and Special Collections Division
> Library of Congress
> 202 707 2018
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