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Norfolk And Washington Steamboat Company. "The Historic Line" Service Between Washington Old Point Comfort [Fort Monroe] Norfolk Virginia And The South Every Day Of The Year

Norfolk And Washington Steamboat Company. "The Historic Line" Service Between Washington Old Point Comfort [Fort Monroe] Norfolk Virginia And The South Every Day Of The Year


Publication: Privately printed, 1931, NP

9" x 8" folded in half. Blue and green wrapper. 12pp. including wrapper. No pagination. Double column text. Numerous black and white photographs, illustrations, itineraries, maps, rates. Much discussion about the city of Washington with black and white photographs of the Washington Monument, the Capitol, the White House, and the Lincoln Memorial to name a few. Information about Norfolk and Tidewater Virginia including black and white photographs of the Monument at Yorktown commemorating the end of the Revolutionary War, tourists bathing at Virginia Beach, the Hotel Cavalier, game fish from fresh water lakes et. al. Much information about the boats of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company. 8-1/4" x 6" black, white and tinted green Route map showing the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay and the adjacent territory in Maryland and Virginia. Diagrams of steamers "Northland, Southland, and District of Columbia. Attached to last page is a notice of reductions in fares and staterooms effective May 1, 1932. Light foxing to wrapper and light wear to the fore-edges along with travel agency stamp. Very good. A nice copy of an informative brochure.

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