Printed blank from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Express Freight Line, New York for shipping packages of brackets and racks to S.D. Woodruff of St. Catharines

Printed blank from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Express Freight Line, New York for shipping packages of brackets and racks to S.D. Woodruff of St. Catharines. This document is signed by R.L. Crawford, agent, Aug.11, 1876.

Flyer about railroad bonds from E.D. Shepard and Co. Bankers

Flyer (2 double sided pages, printed) about railroad bonds from E.D. Shepard and Co. Bankers, New York, n.d.

Province of Ontario Patent issued to Cyrus Dean of St. Catharines for a machine for effecting more perfect combustion of fuel in the furnaces of locomotives

Province of Ontario Patent issued to Cyrus Dean of St. Catharines for a machine for effecting more perfect combustion of fuel in the furnaces of locomotives. This patent was listed in the Records Office of the Registrar General of Canada in Lib. JE, folio 361. This patent is accompanied by a 36 cm. x 57 cm. detailed sketch and explanation of the machine. [Samuel D. Woodruff was the assignee of Cyrus Dean in a in a patent for a rotary washing machine in November of 1869 according to The Commissioners of Patents' Journal by the Great Britain Patent Office], March 23, 1870.