PBA Galleries

Includes: Two announcements of the changing of routes, from Edwin Hawley, Assistant General Traffic Manager. Both typed and dated October 6, 1896. One measures 8½x5½, the other 11x8½. The larger one with company rubber stamp, "received October 13 1896." * Table of Distances between various cities in Japan. On tissue paper. 9½x12½. * Track Chart of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Mail Steamers with Railway Connections. Map of Japan. 13¼x12 map on 14½x13 tissue paper. One tape repair to short tear. April 18, 1894. * Chart Showing the Steamer Tracks of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Map includes far East routes between India, China, Japan, Hawaii, Malaysia, New Guinea, and Australia. 12½x18¾ map on 13¾x20 tissue paper. 8" tear repaired with tape, top left-hand corner torn away. April 21, 1894.

Southern Pacific Railroad acquired Pacific Mail and Occidental & Orient Steamship Companies in 1893. Nice collection from the adjustment period that followed shortly thereafter.