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    Posted 4 months ago

    Dbinkley
    (12 items)

    Is this a good find ? The book is signed by the author, to his son. Just wondering. Any thoughts would be appreciated thank you.

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    1. keramikos, 4 months ago
      Dbinkley, It's a good find if you like it. :-)

      FYI, I found a couple of other copies that shed a bit more light for me on this publication.

      Amazon has at least one copy:

      *snip*

      The old "main line", Hardcover – Antique Books, January 1, 1922
      by JOHN W TOWNSEND (Author)

      Early account of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. First hardbound edition, second printing corrected and extended.

      ASIN ? : ? B000879LCI
      Publisher ? : ? Unknown; First Edition (January 1, 1922)
      Language ? : ? English
      Hardcover ? : ? 113 pages

      *snip*

      https://www.amazon.com/old-main-line-John-Townsend/dp/B000879LCI

      Walmart has at least one copy, but with a different binding:

      https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-old-main-line-by-J-W-Townsend-1922-Leatherbound/1264179194

      eBay has a copy, that was signed by the author for a friend. It also has pictures of some pages, one of which gives some history that explains some of the local names:

      *snip*

      PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE "MAIN LINE," PRINCIPALLY IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES

      What is now called the "Main Line," was not so designated fifty years ago, as the Pennsylvania Railroad had only one line then and comparatively few city families lived on it, even for the summer months. The country it serves was called by the first settlers "The Welsh Barony," which consisted of 30,000 acres, and some of the present residents have their deeds signed by William Penn, while their country places are called by Welsh names of places from which their ancestors migrated and some railroad stations have been given these names.


      *snip*

      https://www.ebay.es/itm/185315893932

      Guess I shoulda long since intuited that a name like Bryn Mawr was Welsh, huh? };-)

      JSTOR has some tidbits about it (although. there's a quotation from it that I read about ten times, and still couldn't quite make sense of it):

      *snip*

      Townsend, J. W. The Old " Main Line." [Bryn Mawr, Pa.] printed. 1922. Pp. 114.

      This booklet is an expansion of a pamphlet published anonymously in 1919. It consists of reminiscences about "things that were and are and were not; and friends that were and some are, while most are not."

      It is source material, of the lighter sort, on a community that had a large Quaker element in it - the Haverford-Bryn Mawr district on the "Main Line" of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There are mnay references, complimentary and otherwise, to Friends.

      The author's picture of the social life and customs of fifty years ago will be interesting to older readers and enlightening to younger generation.

      *snip*

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/41934512

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