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Library of Congress1855

Nebraska and Kanzas

Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes explored for Pacific railroad by Captain J.W. Gunnison and Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith; shows route for a proposed railroad to the West Coast as Governor Stevens' Route & line of proposed Pacific railroad; and adjacent portions of neighboring states. Hand colored in pink to define territory and state boundaries. "Published by J.H. Colton & Co. No. 172 William St. New York.; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United Stated for the Southern District of New York." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes notes. At lower right: No. 50. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress2004

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania

Aerial view of cable-railroad route drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO:2013--378-781/30004. Reprint 2004." Relief shown by shading. Title from panel. Includes text, index of cable inclines, view of summit sheds, and color illustrations. Text, small map of site, and color illustrations on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1875

Map showing proposed routes of the Richmond and Southwest Railway

Base map: Hotchkiss' Geological Map of Virginia and West Virginia, the Geology by Prof. William B. Rogers, chiefly from the Virginia State Survey, 1835-41, "With later oservations in some parts.' On verso: Hotchkiss' Geography of Virginia, No. 3, Geological section by Profs. W.B & H.D. Rogers (1842). Horizontal scale 2.5 miles to 1 inch, 6 illustrations, and red & white sticker: 138. Stamped in lower left margin: 99A. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1875

Map showing proposed routes of the Richmond and Southwest Railway

Base map: Hotchkiss' Geological Map of Virginia and West Virginia, the Geology by Prof. William B. Rogers, chiefly from the Virginia State Survey, 1835-41, "With later oservations in some parts.' In pencil on verso: Geological, Va. ... [illegible] and red & white sticker: 138. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1856

Post- und Eisenbahn-Reisekarte--Deutschland, Holland, die Schweiz, Italien bis Neapel, der grösste Theil von Frankreich, Ungarn, Polen etc. : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Eisenbahnen u. Seedampfschiffahrt

Post-road/railroad map of Central Europe (Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Hungary, and adjacent regions). The component German states/principalities and adjacent countries are shown in distinctive border coloration. Title from map-content area (recto). When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 24 panels. Handwritten (cursive script) inked identification statement on paper label affixed to cloth backing (verso): German post and rail in 1856, Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. LC sheet imperfect: Use-worn, LC accession rubber-stamp in map-content area (top recto), lead-pencil annotations on cloth backing (verso). Includes notes, indexed table titled "Statistische Uebersicht der 38 deutschen Bundesstaaten", railroad distance table, waterways distance table, and key to abbreviations. Five paper panels with statistical tables, panel with spa/health-resort locations, panel with 6 trans-Alpine road profiles, and cover panel affixed to cloth backing (verso). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

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Library of Congress1855

Carl Jügel's Post u. Reise Karte von Deutschland : und den Nachbar Staaten, bis London, Paris, Montpellier, Florenz, Warschau, Kopenhagen

Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy annotated to show "M. Fillmore's route Sep. & Oct 1855". Each sheet sectioned into 9 and mounted on cloth, folding to 20 x 14 cm. Signed on sheet 1 on verso above title label: Millard Fillmore bot. at Frankfort $2.25, Sept. 3 1855. In addition to the title label and two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso of page 2. Legend in French pasted on verso of page 3. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend and parallel title.

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Library of Congress1856

Carl Jügel's Post u. Reise Karte von Deutschland : und den Nachbar Staaten, bis London, Paris, Montpellier, Florenz, Warschau, Kopenhagen

Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Publication and edition information from cover. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy sectioned into 48 and mounted on cloth, folding to 21 x 14 cm. Signed on French cover on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed above French legend on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed on manuscript label on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. In addition to the printed title label, manuscript title label, French legend and list of postal rates, and the two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend, parallel title, and list of postal rates.

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Library of Congress1855

Übersichts-Karte der Eisenbahnen und der bedeutenderen Post- und Dampfschiff-Verbindungen in Deutschland : und den angrenzenden Ländern

Unidentified prime meridian. Includes list of units of measurement per one degree at the Equator. LC copy sectioned into 8 and mounted on cloth, folding to 20 x 12 cm. Signed on verso in upper right: Millard Fillmore 1856. Mounting effaces map on verso, which seems to be a map of middle Europe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1850

A new map for travellers through the United States of America showing the railways, canals & stage roads, with the distances

Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Includes illustrations. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by J. Calvin Smith, in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York". Insets: Railroad & canal routes from Albany to Buffalo -- Map showing the rail roads between the cities of New York, Boston &. Albany & the Hudson R. from N. York to Albany -- Rail road route from New York to Philadelphia --Rail road route from Philadelphia to Washington -- Map of Oregon, Northern California, Santa Fé &c. LC copy signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, March 1852. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1914

Real Estate Map Publishing Co's atlas of township of Proviso, Cook County, Illinois : including Riverside : being sections 1 to 36 inclusive, township 39 north, range 12 east of the 3rd principal meridian : embracing the villages of Maywood, Melrose Park, Forest Park, River Forest, Riveside, Brookfield, Bellwood, LaGrange Park, and Hillside : showing subdivisions, dedications, and vacations of streets and alleys with complete marginal notes pertaining thereto acreage owners, schools, railroads and stations electric railroads and stations, street railways, parks, boulevards and all incorporate city and villiage limits

"Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1914 by Real Estate Map Pub. Co." "Published in two volumes." Includes index. Copy imperfect: Looseleaf, portfolio, title page torn and repaired, fragile, torn along fold lines in center of other pages. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1903

Karta Manʹchzhurīi

Railroad map of Manchuria with the Chinese Eastern Railway emphasized Relief shown by shading Title from head of legend LC sheet use-worn, torn at fold lines. Includes illustrations (1 in color) Text, notes, and train timetables on verso Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Grant Harris; July 1995. In Russian

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Library of Congress1891

Rand McNally & Co.'s Wyoming

Relief shown by hachures. Shows extent of township and range survey. "Copyright, 1891, by Rand McNally & Co." In upper margins: 299-300. LC copies 1 and 2 encapsulated in mylar. Includes reference notes for immediate neighboring states. "Wyoming--Railroads" and indexes to "Wyoming--counties, lakes, rivers, and towns" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1890

Map of Montana : population (estimated 1890) 130,000. 145,310 square miles

Relief shown by hachures. Shows county boundaries, towns, cities, railroads, and immediately adjacent areas of neighboring states. "Copyright, 1890, by Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick." "Benedict & Co., Engr's Chicago." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. In left margin: 44. Missing section at bottom and mounted on paper backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1851

A map of the medical topography of Baltimore, 1851

Relief shown by hachures. Shows locations of doctors, "regions of intermittent & remittent fever", line of quarantine, and railroads and roads. Includes illustration of paddle boat. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1830

Depot of the B. & O. R.R. Co

Shows the Baltimore depot on Pratt Street, which was built in 1830. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1844

Plan of Baltimore

Depths shown by soundings. Shows wards and railroads. Includes notes and index to points of interest. LC copy annotated in red pencil, probably showing additional railroad lines. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1838

[Isthmus of Panama, no. 41-16]

Covers the Isthmus of Panama from Panama City and Chorera on the Pacific Coast to Chagres and Portobelo Harbor on the Caribbean Coast. Also shows rivers, streams, settlements, an existing rail line, a proposed rail line to Panama City, a proposed canal, roads, a trail, coastline, coastal features, and anchorages. Title written in ink from verso. Pencil, pen-and-ink and wash. On verso at top in script and black ink: To: J.B. Feraud, esq. On verso in ink in bottom right corner: No.17 Coll. of Major DB Douglass, abt. 1838. Imperfect: Brittle, crack-lined, darkened, water-stained, holes throughout with minor losses, gold stitched along edges, and mounted on cloth. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 645 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1851

Map of the Tehuantepec Railroad : from Jaltipec river to Boca del Monte

A proposed railroad route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Also shows alternative routes, roads, streams, and settlements. Relief shown pictorially and by contours and spot heights. Manuscript: Pencil, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolors. Handwritten note attached on looseleaf paper In top left corner: Tehuantepec Railway Company. Map of the Tehuantepec Railroad from Jaltipec river to Boca del Monte, 1851. [anon. Ms.] fold. 35 x 139, [n.p. 1851]. Accompanied by six manuscript sheets of an unidentified sketch map of a segment related to the railroad showing a large stream containing what appear to be soundings. Sketch map contains information relevant to the river portion of the proposed combined rail-water route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, filed separately G4412.T2 Imperfect: Fragile, discoloration, staining, and torn at sheet edges. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 544 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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