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Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

united states. war department. office of p. r. r. surveys·warren, g. k. (gouverneur kemble)·bien & sterner
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Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state." In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the [illegible], Department of the Interior." Annotations in ink at lower center. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth, minor discoloration horizontally along lower right half and along upper left half. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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united states. war department. office of p. r. r. surveys, warren, g. k. (gouverneur kemble), bien & sterner. 1855. Map of routes for a Pacific railroad. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007626788/

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