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From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles : from explorations and surveys

At head of title: Coast route, California Map no. 1. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps . . . to Illustrate the Various Reports . . . (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 158 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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From the Pimas villages to Fort Fillmore : from explorations and surveys

At head of title: Route near the 32nd parallel of north latitude. Map no. 2. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps ... to Illustrate the Various Reports ... (Washington, 1859) "The Gila River, from the mouth of the valle del Sauz eastword, is laid down from the reconnaissance of Maj. W. H. Emory, U.S.T.E. in 1846--the remaining portion of the Gila; the positions of Frontera, El Paso, Ft. Fillmore and Tucson, and the topography along the Mexican Boundary Line were furnished by the office of the Mexican Boundary Commission, Maj. W. E. Emory, Commissioner. The heavy dotted line indicates new trails were made by Lt. Parke's Parties." Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 159 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1855

From Great Salt Lake to the Humboldt Mountains

At head of title: Route near the 41st Parallel. Map no. 2. Relief shown by hachures. LC copy missing data on left side of map. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps ... to Illustrate the Various Reports ... (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 166 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1855

From the Humboldt Mountains to the Mud Lakes

At head of title: Route near the 41st Parallel. Map no. 3. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps ... to Illustrate the Various Reports ... (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 167 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1855

From the valley of the Mud Lakes to the Pacific Ocean

At head of title: Route near the 41st Parallel. Map no. 4. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps ... to Illustrate the Various Reports ... (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 168 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1859

From San Francisco Bay to the northern boundary of California : from explorations and surveys

Relief shown by hachures. At head of title: Routes in Oregon and California. Map no. 1. "Drawn by John Young." From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps... to Illustrate the Various Reports... (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 169 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1879

New rail road map of the United States and the Dominion of Canada, showing the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific R.R.; the great overland route and short line to the west and south-west

Map of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. The line was created by an act of the state of Illinois, February 27, 1847, and amended July 27, 1851. The line reached the Mississippi River on February 22, 1854, where the first bridge to cross the river was opened on September 1, 1854, linking Rock Island, Ill., with Davenport, Iowa.

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Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with proposed extension to Cleveland, Wooster, Sandusky, Toledo, Cincinnati; Michigan City, Chicago, Galena, Rock Island, St. Louis, &a; in connection with the public works of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at lower right of map. Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad is part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. See entry 517.

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Library of Congress1861

Lloyd's American railroad map

Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]

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Library of Congress1864

Northern Mississippi and Alabama

General map indicating cities and towns, roads and railroads, rivers, and some relief by hachures. The map is overprinted in red to show state names and highlight state boundaries and railroads. Another copy is in the James A. Garfield papers, Manuscript Division, L.C., series 8, container no. 1. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:633,600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 259.4 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.

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