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Library of Congress1889

Map showing the location of the Flat-Top Coal Field and present and proposed railroads

Detailed map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network.

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Library of Congress1881

Map showing the route of the Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad and its connections

Map shows the north-central states with drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network indicated. Emphasizes the main line.

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Library of Congress1853

[Outline map of the United States showing proposed railroad routes to the Pacific]

For a similar map see Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3 (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63.) p. 193.

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Library of Congress1890

Pocket map showing the railroads, street railways, manufactories, deep water connections, blocks and subdivisions of the city of Houston

"Facts compiled to July 1st, 1890." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1912

Aero view of the Panama Canal, looking southwest, The world's greatest engineering feat to be realized 395 years after first proposed

Relief shown pictorially. Includes distance tables. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1834

Map of the route of the proposed New York & Erie Railroad, as surveyed in 1834, reduced from the plans as returned by Benjn. Wright, Civil Engineer, D. R. Harrison, sc

Shows New York state from Westchester County to Lake Erie, and part of northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The line was chartered on April 24, 1832. See entry 404.

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Library of Congress1853

Map of a part of the State of Louisiana exhibiting the route of the New-Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Rail Road

Mississippi delta area shows drainage, sugar crop, parishes, major cities and towns, canals, and railroads with lines named and distances on the main line. This railroad was opened for first 50 miles on March 6, 1854. It was purchased in 1878 by the Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad. [From published bibliography]

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Library of Congress1856

Map showing the location of the Charleston & Savannah R.R. May, 1856

Map of the South Carolina tidewater area between Charleston and Savannah, Ga. "The red line represents the located line; the blue lines represent some of the principal experimental lines." Chartered December 20, 1853. Reorganized in 1866 as the Savannah and Charleston Railroad.

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The railroad network of the U.S.S.R. : and the Fourth Five-Year Plan of reconstruction and development for railroad transport for 1946-1950

Shows existing lines, lines with second track planned/newly in service, new lines built/nearing completion, electrified lines, and lines being electrified. Does not cover USSR east of Novosibirsk/Alma-Ata. Includes notes and 4 regional insets "10763." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1870

Colton's railroad map (intermediate size) of the United States reduced from "Colton's railroad and commercial map of the United States."

Detailed map of the United States showing drainage, cities and towns, internal boundaries, railroads named along the line, and railroads under construction.

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Library of Congress1858

A new and complete rail road map of the United States compiled from reliable sources by William Perris, C.E. & Surveyor, New York; presented by the Home Insurance Company

Map of the eastern half of the United States showing cities, state boundaries, "finished railroads," and "railroads in progress."

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Library of Congress1885

Official map of Michigan, railroad, township and sectional, prepared under the direction of the commissioner of railroads

Detailed state map including drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network. Census information, with miles of line by county, at left margin of map.

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Library of Congress1882

Map showing the route and connections of the Memphis and New Orleans Railroad

Gulf states showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network, with emphasis on the main line.

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Library of Congress1861

Lloyd's map of the Southern States, showing all the railroads, their stations & distances : also the counties, towns, villages, harbors, rivers, and forts

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.T. Lloyd in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States ..." Text of newspaper, entitled "Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the Southern States, Saturday, September 7, 1861" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fold lines and tears in margins mended with tape. Vault CW3

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Library of Congress2012