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Library of Congress1855

Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state." In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the [illegible], Department of the Interior." Annotations in ink at lower center. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth, minor discoloration horizontally along lower right half and along upper left half. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1868

Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; originally prepared to accompany the reports of the explorations for a Pacific railroad route

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "Territory of Alaska." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Designed to show "milt. post underlined in red," LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2

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Library of Congress1853

Map of the various channels for conveying the trade of the north west to the Atlantic sea-board exhibiting the tributaries & drainage of the trade into each and the effect of the enlargement of the Erie Canal, illustrating the position taken by William J. McAlpine, C.E. in his Annual Report as State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, 1853

Outline map of the eastern half of the United States showing canals, finished railroads, railroads in progress of contruction and proposed lines. Trade areas are indicated by line symbols and added brown and red color.

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Library of Congress1853

Map of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad exhibiting the principal tributary lines as projected and its connections with other railroads west of the Mississippi River, which unite with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and south projected Pacific Railroad via Elpaso [sic] to the Pacific Ocean, showing also the connection by rail road of the cities of New Orleans & St. Louis. Little Rock, Ark. Sep. 1853

Map showing Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and part of Texas. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and state boundaries, west of the Mississippi River. The adjoining area east of the Mississippi River shows only the rail network. The map indicates proposed, surveyed, located, and completed rail lines. Chartered in Arkansas in 1853 and in Missouri in 1854.

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Library of Congress1897

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Vol. F, 1897. 115 sheet(s). Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Bernice, Bryn Mawr, Burnham, Cheltenham, Colehour, Globe Station, Hedgewisch, Irondale, Lansing, Seester, Oak Glen, South Chicago, South Junction, West Hammond, Windsor Park.

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[Map of parts of Caroline, Hanover, and Henrico counties, Va., west of the Mattaponi River and the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad]

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.

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Map showing the N.E. & S.W. Alabama R.R. with its connections also the principal routes between New York and New Orleans

Outline map of the eastern United states including Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. Shows the railroad network and steamship routes. Indicates the railroad land grant and the coal and iron deposits in Alabama. Distances from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, La. are shown below the title. Chartered in 1853 and 1854. Consolidated with the Wills Valley Railroad, forming the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.

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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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Library of Congress1862

Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements

Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Maryland (without relief). Military features not shown. Confederate imprint. "Copyright secured by W. & J., May 1, 1862." Prime meridian: Washington D.C. Imperfect: Copy 1 fold-lined, trimmed, torn at fold lines, missing cover; Copy 2 fold-lined, halved, missing small internal sections at fold-line crosses, mounted on paper backing. Includes railroad directory, ill. "View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.", and imprint of state seal. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 475.5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

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Library of Congress1864

Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements.

"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: New map of Virginia. Richmond : West & Johnston, 1864 ; 18 x 12 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 501.8 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6206 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 2, May 2002, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team; c. 4 photocopy, LVA. c. 2 has green cardboard cover. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00039. Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Map accession no. 4150 (1974); c. 4 (on 4 sheets, negative photostats, sheets 40 x 46 cm.). Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 2 & 4

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Library of Congress1865

Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements.

"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia. Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. 1862; 15 x 10 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 475.5 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6204 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 971 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 1, May 2002, source unknown; c. 3, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00038. Conservation: copy 1 restored April 17, 1947; copy 1 and 3, Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Copy 1 has no cover; c. 3 has blue cardboard cover and is 58 x 87 cm on sheet 66 x 96 cm. Copy 1 map accession no. 5177ax; copy 3 map accession no. 5177bx. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 1 & 3

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