Historic houses, North Capitol St., Washington, D.C.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
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1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Galveston and vicinity, Texas -- Vicinity of the Rio Grande -- New Orleans and delta of the Mississippi, Louisiana -- Mobile harbor, Alabama -- Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida -- Wilmington and vicinity, N. Carolina -- Charleston harbor and its approaches, S. Carolina -- Beaufort and vicinity, N. Carolina. Imperfect: Creased, brittle, small tears along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2007-021
Scale of map of the eastern half of the United States is ca. 1:3,300,000. The map indicates "Railroads finished and under way" and "railroads proposed." Chartered January 15, 1849.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. H. Colton." "Explanations" (i.e., legend) is pasted over the bottom margin. Map is colored to show "free, or non-slaveholding states" (pink), "border slave states" (yellow), and "seceded or confederate states" (green). Inset: Colton's map of the United States showing the proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean. 19 x 26 cm. Advertisement for "Bacon's shilling war maps" is pasted onto the verso. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:3,120,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 25.7 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.