New York Parcel Dispatch Company

American 🇺🇸 c. 1872

The New York Parcel Dispatch Company produced illustrations of the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which was an early precursor to the underground subway system that New Yorkers know today. These illustrations were meant to demonstrate the benefits and technological advances of the possible development.

Illustration of the view when looking from within the tunnel into the station from Illustrated description of the Broadway underground railway (1872)

Sunday, Aug 2, 2020

Illustration of the view when looking from within the tunnel into the station from Illustrated description of the Broadway underground railway (1872)