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Map of the Northern Rail Road of New Jersey

Topographic map of part of New Jersey and New York, covering the area north of the Hudson River and between Jersey City and Nyack, N.Y. The map shows drainage, roads, houses, cities and towns, single-track, double-track, and proposed railroads. Chartered February 9, 1854. Completed in 1859. [From published bibliography]

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Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi

Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."

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Position of Union and Rebel forces, Oct. 14, 1863

Map shows Union troops on the road running parallel to the Orange and Alexandria railroad. Just past Bristoe Station, as Union troops crossed Broad Run, a Confederate battery emerged from woods north of the railroad. Next, Confederate skirmishers appeared on a hill overlooking the Union column. Finally, there were several Confederate charges. Union forces were able to return fire and, after several hours of fierce fighting, to capture Confederate artillery and approximately 450 prisoners.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Vol. A, 1905. 132 sheet(s). Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bartlett, Desplaines, Dunning, Edison Park, Elk Grove, Feehanville, Glencoe, Glenview, Gross Point, Kenilworth, Lakeside, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Niles Center, North Northfield, Norwood Park, Orchard Place, Palatine, Park Ridge, Riverview, Sharp Corners, Shermerville, Wheeling, Wilmette, Winnetka.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Vol. A, 1924. 90 sheet(s). Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bartlett, Desplaines, Elk Grove, Feehanville, Glenview, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Niles Center, Northbrook, North Northfield, Orchard Place, Palatine, Park Ridge, Riverview, Schiller Park, Sharp Corners, Techny, Teesville, Wheeling.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Vol. A, 1924 - July 1950. 97 sheet(s). 051. Other places as they appear on original: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bartlett, Des Plaines, Elk Grove, Feehanville, Glenview, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Skokie, Northbrook, North Northfield, Orchard Place, Palatine, Park Ridge, Riverview, Schiller Park, Sharp Corners, Techny, Lincolnwood, Wheeling.

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