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Library of Congress1834

Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys by Amos Lay, geographer & map publisher, New York

Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and proposed lines. Railroads are shown in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and a very small part of North Carolina from Rock Island to the northern boundary.

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Library of Congress1835

United States

The map covers the eastern half of the United States. Shows roads, canals, and railroads. Indicates state boundaries and many cities.

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Library of Congress1840

Map of the canals & rail roads of the United States, reduced from the large map of the U.S.; engraved by J. Knight

General map of the eastern United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and place names. Railroads are annotated in brown, canals in blue.

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Library of Congress1847

Map of the United States of America to accompany Doggett's rail road guide

"The working lines of railroad are shown in color." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington D.C. Includes inset "Map of Oregon, California &c.". LC copy imperfect: foldlined, darkened along folds, lacking lower left corner. LC Railroad maps, 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Complete railway map designed and engraved from the original maps, charts and schedules furnished by railway engineers, agents &c to accompany the American Railway Guide

To the right of the map is an advertisement stating "American Railway Guide for the United States. Published Monthly."

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Library of Congress1849

Traveller's map of the middle, northern, eastern states and Canada showing all the railroad, steamboat, canal and principal stage routes

Map covers the northeastern portion of the United States.

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Library of Congress1848

Skeleton map showing the Rail Roads completed and in progress in the United States, and those projected through the Public Lands and their connection with the principal harbours on the Lakes and on the Seaboard; printed by order of the Senate of the United States the 9th: Sess: 31st Congress 1848-9

Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. Similar to entry no. 11.

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Map of the central portion of the United States showing the lines of the proposed Pacific railroads

Strip map of the United States between 36 degrees and 47 degrees north latitude. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, place names, and some trails in the western half of the map. Indicates the proposed lines for the western, central, and eastern divisions of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Library of Congress1850

Dinsmore & Company's new and complete map of the railway system of the United States and Canada; compiled from official sources, under the direction of the editor of the "American Railway Guide."

Map of the eastern United States to about the 96th Meridian showing operating and projected railroads.

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Library of Congress1852

Map of the United States in part and Canada, showing all the canals, railroads, navigable rivers &c

Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing drainage, place names, state boundaries, canals, completed and "unfinished" railroads, stage roads, and steamboat routes.

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Library of Congress1852

A new map of the United States. Upon which are delineated its vast works of internal communication, routes across the continent &c

Map of the eastern half of the United States and part of Canada showing drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, roads, railroads, and canals. Showing also the island of Cuba.

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Library of Congress1853

[Outline map of the United States showing proposed railroad routes to the Pacific]

For a similar map see Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3 (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63.) p. 193.

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Library of Congress1853

Map of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific

Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.

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Library of Congress1854

Map of all the railroads in the United States in operation and progress; drawn and engraved under direction of the editor of the American railroad journal

Map of the eastern United States to about the 95th Meridian showing operating and projected railroads.

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Library of Congress1854

Map of all the railroads in the United States in operation and progress

Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network. In 1923 Poor's Publishing Company of New York issued a reduced redrawing of this map measuring 46 x 50 cm.

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Library of Congress1854

Diagram of the United States of America, Mexico, the West India Islands and Isthmus of Darien; by W. T. Steiger, General Land Office

Outline map of the United States and Middle America showing proposed routes of the Pacific Rail Road and its branches in connection with the various systems of existing and unfinished rail roads from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

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Library of Congress1856

Dinsmore's complete map of the railroads & canals in the United States & Canada carefully compiled from authentic sources by Richard S. Fisher, editor of the American Rail Road & Steam Navigation Guide

Map of the eastern half of the United States and part of Canada showing drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, and proposed, projected, and operating railroads.

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Library of Congress1856

United States railway map, showing all the railways completed in progress and proposed in the United States & Canadas with their stations, distances & connections together with a map of routes for a Pacific railway carefully compiled from government surveys

Map of the eastern United States within decorative borders showing drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, and the railroad network with named lines and state of construction.

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