Colton's new railroad & county map of the United States and the Canadas &c
Detailed county map of the eastern half of the United States showing place names and the railroads.
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Detailed county map of the eastern half of the United States showing place names and the railroads.
Map of the eastern half of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, railroads with emphasis on the main line.
Detailed map showing drainage, state and county boundaries, place names, steamboat routes, and railroad network.
Map covers the northeastern portion of the United States.
Shows drainage, relief by hachures, place names, and state boundaries.
Relief shown pictorially. Includes distance tables. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Includes index to railroads and indexed "Plan of the New England States". LC copy sectioned into 45 sections and mounted on cloth for folding. Publisher's advertisement on verso signed "Millard Fillmore". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Outline map of the north-central and northeastern states indicating larger cities, county boundaries, and railroad network emphasizing the Michigan Central Railroad and the Great Western Railway.
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.
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."
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.
"The red line indicates the route of the Railroad. The green line is the route followed by Col. Fremont from the South Pass to Humboldt River."
Covers the United States from the Mississippi River east, and from Maine to northern Florida. Includes drainage, relief by hachures, place names, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network.
Hand colored. Includes illus., "Time dial," and inset of "Map of Escambia & Santa Rosa Cos., Fl. showing Pensacola harbor and channel, Ft. Pickens, Ft. McRae, Bragg's batteries and the position of the U.S. fleet now before the harbor." On verso: Lloyd's American railroad weekly, vol. 1, no. 51, July 6, 1861. Scale ca. 1:1,900,800. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 14 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
LC copy imperfect, lower right quarter of map missing. LC also has 1853 and 1854 editions. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:570,240. LC Railroad maps, 107 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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
Outline map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing "railroads completed or in progress" and "railroads proposed & authorized unless named as 'projected.'"
Outline map of eastern Pennsylvania and part of New Jersey showing relief by hachures, drainage, coal, timber, major cities, and railroads.