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Posted: 31 Dec 2014

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Pennsylvania Railroad Pass, Lancaster Division, Hess and Flinn's Station, 1882

Pennsylvania Railroad Pass, Lancaster Division, Hess and Flinn's Station, 1882
"Pennsylvania Rail Road, Lancaster Division, 1882. Pass ________. To Hess & Flinn's Station, the cheapest furniture and upholstery house in the city. No. 148-150 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. Hess & Flinn."

This advertising trade card is a clever parody of a railroad pass (for examples of the real thing, see below for Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1908 and Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1909). Instead of authorizing travel over a railroad line, however, it invited potential customers to visit Hess & Flinn's furniture store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during the year 1882.

For another Hess & Flinn trade card, see Hess and Flinn, Dealers in All Kinds of Household Furniture, Lancaster, Pa. (below).

Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1908 Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1909
Hess and Flinn, Dealers in All Kinds of Household Furniture

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