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Image on Dodge City, a railroad town Marker
Photographer: Atsf
Taken: Circa 1870s
Caption: Image on Dodge City, a railroad town Marker
Additional Description:
[Caption reads] The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad circulated brightly-colored posters to encourage freight and passenger business, and to advance the idea that the railroad had opened up the West for settlement.

Submitted: May 12, 2013, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p241896
File Size: 0.106 Megabytes

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