ANTIQUE 1878 SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO BILL OF LADING RECEIPT BOOK RAILROAD FREIGHT
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Reference Number: Avaluer:43049550 |
Please email with any questions. Southern Express Company book of freight receipts, 5 1/4" by 8 1/4" cardboard cover with more than eighty bills of lading pages inside. These pages are filled out between January and April of 1878 for merchandise purchased from Carhart & Curd of Macon, Georgia being sent via railroad to customers in surrounding counties. I see one receipt in this book going as far as Eufala, Alabama and another package addressed "Ga Lunatic Asylum" in Milledgev...ille. Carhart & Curd was a hardware mercantile in Macon and they shipped via railroad frequently. This receipt book came from a collection of their business ephemera. Interior pages in various condition but most are very clean. Cover show wear with loss of the marbled paper covering the cardboard.