Waybill for Stagecoach Travel between Fitchburg, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont, 1844
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Artifact Overview
Waybills helped nineteenth-century stage lines keep track of fares and passengers. For each journey, company agents would fill out passenger names, destinations, number of seats and collected fares. Additional notes sometimes listed types of baggage or other special instructions. This clipped waybill documents a trip between Massachusetts and Vermont in July 1844.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Waybill
Date Made
20 July 1844
Subject Date
20 July 1844
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.0.24.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Handwriting
Printing (Process)
Dimensions
Height: 1.75 in
Width: 7.625 in
Inscriptions
Front: Way Bill for Fitchburg to Brattleboro July[?] 20th[?] 1844
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