(Steamboats) Broadside, “THIS DAY. FOR NORFOLK, PORTSMOTH, RICHMOND, PETERSBURG, VA AND CHARLESTON, S.C…. SUPERB, SWIFT AND SAFE STEAMBOAT HERALD…” (Baltimore: “Printed at Murphy’s Cheap and Expeditious Job Printing Establishment” [c. 1842]) 230 x 184 mm. (9 x 7 1/4 in.).

A superb advertisement for The Baltimore Steam Packet Company’s steamship Herald, operating daily (except Sundays) between Baltimore and Norfolk from the 1840s through the mid-1860s. “T. Sheppard, Agent” refers to Colonel Thomas Sheppard, the Treasurer of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company from its inception in 1839 through 1848.

In 1842, The Bay Line (also known as the Old Bay Line) ordered their first new boat, the Medora, which exploded on its test run in Baltimore harbor. Later that same year, it was rebuilt as the Herald by builders Brown and Collyer. The Herald was sold to a New York line in 1867, and was abandoned in 1885^*.

Light dampstains, rough edges as shown, mild creasing, else very good condition.

(EXA 5645) SOLD.
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^* Richard E. Prince, Seaboard Air Line Railway: Steam Boats, Locomotives, and History (Salt Lake City: Wheelright Lithogtraphing Company, 1969).