(Steam Boats) Broadside, “BOSTON AND HINGHAM STEAM BOAT CO. ON AND AFTER MONDAY OCTOBER 11th, 1880 STEAMER GOV. ANDREW WILL LEAVE ROWE’S WHARF, BOSTON…” (Boston: F. A. Searle, Printer, [1880]) 496 x 370 mm. (19 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.). For only a quarter you could get a one-way ticket from Boston to either Hull, Downer Landing or Hingham. The same ride today would set you back $8.00 ($16.00 if you’re going to Logan Airport). The steamer Gov. Andrew was built in 1874 and plied the Boston/Hingham/Hull route well into the 1880s.^*

Laid onto a larger linen sheet, light dampstain at top left corner, looses affect some text which has been filled in, overall very good.

(EXA 5364) $350

___________
^* Thomas Tracy Bouvé et al, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, (1893) Vol. 1, 250-251.