Armstrong and Company
1889

Trade card Hingham Hull and Downer Landing Steamboat Company

DESCRIPTION: Color lithographed promotional trade card and time-table for the Hingham, Hull and Downer Landing Steamboat Company, issued for the season of 1889. Advertises steamers departing from Rowe's Wharf, Boston, for Pemberton, Hull, Strawberry Hill, Downer Landing, Hingham and Nantasket Beach, with connections to the Nantasket Beach Railroad, operated by the Old Colony Railroad.

The illustrated cover features Hotel Pemberton overlooking the shore, with visitors strolling along the beach. Decorative lettering and ribbon banners promote the combined boat-and-rail route to Point Allerton, Kenberma, Strawberry Hill, Surfside, Ocean House and Nantasket Beach. Lithographed by Armstrong & Co., Boston, the brochure documents the steamboat and railroad services that brought Boston excursionists to the South Shore's seaside resorts during the late nineteenth century.

CREATOR: Armstrong and Company

PUBLICATION DATE: 1889

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: N/A

CONDITION: Very good. No issues.

COLORING: Litho.

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SIZE: " x "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 14

PRICE: $110

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