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"March 1st., 1906." North oriented toward the lower right. Annotated in colored inks and pencil to show railroads. Mounted on larger sheet with cloth backing. Printed in bottom right margin: No. 726-C. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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."
Sketch map of northern Ohio showing the railroad lines. Below the neat line is a list of officers and directors of the company. Chartered as the Junction Rail Road, March 2, 1846.
Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing drainage, relief by hachures, place names, and state boundaries. Chartered as the Auburn and Eel River Valley Rail Road on March 8, 1853. Name changed August 3, 1853.
On tracing cloth, with roads in red, rivers in blue, and railroads, villages, churches, houses, and names of residents in black, and some annotations and emendments in pencil. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 536.4 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Vol. 1, 1906 North And West Division. 116 sheet(s). Map of congested district. Bound.
Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, forts and fortification, express companies, railroads, and magnetic telegraph wires. Includes railroads which have been completed and in operation up to July 1863.
Photo(s): 1 | Data Page(s): 18 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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.
Photo(s): 3 | Data Page(s): 15 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1
Photo(s): 7 | Data Page(s): 16 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1
Outline commercial map of the eastern half of the United States framed in decorative borders indicating major drainage systems, state boundaries, cities and towns along railroad routes, and distances between stations. Includes detailed lists of railroad companies, stations, and distances by state in marginal text. [From published bibliography]
Map of the southeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network. In 1871 the line was in progress of completion. One of Colton's typical maps published for an individual railroad company to promote industry and settlement in rich mining or agricultural areas. (Entry 533)
Photo(s): 10 | Measured Drawing(s): 5 | Data Page(s): 3 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1
"February 1911." Oriented with north toward the lower left. "Reproduced from report issued by New York Dock Department." Removed from textual publication. Annotated in lead pencil on verso: Microfilm 95/6001 MicRR. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Map of the continental United States and parts of Canada and Mexico showing drainage, some hachures to indicate major topography in the West, major cities and towns; names or abbreviations for railroad companies appear along each line. The map is printed in colors to distinguish major railroad connections. [From published bibliography]
Shows the names of some residents, some of the outer fortifications of Richmond and those along the railroad north of the South Anna River. Date, title, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. Imperfect: staining on the lower right section of the sheet. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H25 LC Land ownership maps, 1233 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Shows drainage, cities and towns, and railroads in color.