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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. D. B. MARTIN, MANAGER PASSENGER TRAFFIC. Baltimore, October 1st, 1900. TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC :~ The current number of the Book of theRoyal Blue opens its fourth volume. In presenting its pages to you from monthto month, it is very gratifying to note thegrowing interest manifested, as each numberappears. As there are many inquiries received asto how copies of the magazine can be obtainedregularly, we beg to announce a limited num-ber can be obtained gratuitously each monthfrom any of the principal ticket offices ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It willalso be sent postpaid to any address in theUnited States or Canada for one year on re-ceipt of Fifty (50) Cents in postage stamps. Complete sets of Volume No. 3 will bebound in Royal Blue cloth if sent to thisoffice prepaid with remittance of 50 centscash to pay for binding and return express charges. D. B. MARTIN, Mgr. Pass. Traffic, B.&O.R.R.Baltimore, Md.
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Book of the Royal Blue Pi blished Monthly by thePassenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. IV. BALTIMORE, OCTOBER, 1900. No. 1. A MODEL TICKET OFFICE. AT the corner of 34th Street and Broad-way in New York City may be foundthe most unique up-to-date railroadticket office in the United States. It isthe up town office of the Baltimore & OhioRailroad, and on account of its proximityto one of the most fashionable sections ofthe great metropolis, the office was re-modeled to be in keeping with its surround-ings. The office in itself is not large,occupying a room not over 25 x 40 feet,but its attractiveness has placed it inadvance of all other modern offices of itskind. The interior decorations are principallyof the Louis XIV period. The walls arepaneled in rich relief, painted in a trans-parent forest green, shading off to a lightertone in the center of each. At the top ofeach panel is a handsomely modeled car-touche of the Louis XIV period. Thepilasters are also r

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