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transportation and communication: explore 421 source-linked works published from 1832 to 2004, with original documents and citations.
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Indicates location and date of engagements, towns, railroads, state and county boundaries, and rivers.
Shows drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network.
Small sketch map showing drainage and the major cities and towns in the midwest. Includes railroad stations along a heavy distorted line representing the main railroad line in Missouri. This is an early example of the typical timetable map developed in the 1870's which was designed to place emphasis on specific routes.
Signed in ms: "Millard Fillmore 1862." Description derived from published bibliography. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 29 LC Railroad maps, 138 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Map of the midwestern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. Chartered January 16, 1836, constructed in 1853. Consolidated into the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, 1864. See entries 369 and 370.
Detailed strip map from rights of way surveys showing the location of the line between Sunbury and Erie and the counties through which the line traverses. Relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns along the line are shown. Railroad stations and distances in 10-mile intervals are indicated.
Shows drainage, relief by hachures, place names, and state boundaries.
Shows state, county, and township boundaries and indicates mileage between stations. A table of distances appears above the inset.
Township map showing place names, counties, and the railroad system. At bottom of the map appear statements about the economic conditions of the state and its railroads.
Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]
Detailed county map of the eastern half of the United States showing place names and the railroads.
Detailed map showing drainage, state and county boundaries, place names, steamboat routes, and railroad network.
Detailed map showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, canals and railroads.
Index of place names appears to either side and bottom of the map. A list of "Railroads Represented on this Map" appears below the index.
Most of title and several small unimportant sections of the map are missing. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:360,000. LC Railroad maps, 407 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Township map of northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois showing rivers, place names, railroads, and the land grant to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. Profile of the railroad is shown across bottom of map. Chartered in 1847 and completed in 1859.
Detailed map of lower New England states and part of New York indicating drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, township lines, and the railroad network.
Outline map of the eastern half of the United States to about the 95th Meridian. [From published bibliography]