Unused "John Bull" Pennsylvania RR Ticket from 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Description

"John Bull" RR Admission Ticket with Train Illustration for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
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Admission Ticket
: 2.25 x 6 inches stiff buff card with red and brown print and Pennsylvania RR Keystone logo
and facsimile signature of J E. Watkins
(front shown). New York:
n.p.
, 1893. Single stiff card printed both sides. Back
photo image of the Bull
with its distinctive
stove pipe stack
in brown with
caption of its trip to the WCE in 1893 (
shown).
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Supplemental Information:
The
heritage engine "Bull"
made the trip to Chicago under its own steam. It was an outdoor exhibit at the
Pennsylvania Building
located outside of the main
Transportation Building
. I have inserted from a different PRR publication from the Fair, the plan and photo illustration of its location on the special tracks (both shown and digitally highlighted).
Watkins was head of the PPR exhibit in Chicago
.
- Condition: Excellent. Nice printing (shown). No bends (shown). Good colors and illustration (shown). Back with vestige of previous attachment to a scrapbook (shown).
**Buyer
pays
.95 First Class Package shipping in a stiff mailer with tracking number.