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Outline map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing the railroad network. "Comparative Distances by the Great Railway Routes of Ohio from Columbus to New York" are listed to the right of the map. Chartered February 8, 1847.
"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.
Map of the northern and western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns. Color coded to show "Northern Pacific Lines, Proper, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co's System, Oregon and Transcontinental Branch Lines, Lines to be constructed." Fringed lines indicate roads under construction.
The map covers parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Indicates counties and major cities. Chartered on June 9, 1832. Opened to traffic in 1854. Name changed in 1860 to Elmira and Williamsport Railroad.
1902 Vol. 1. 124 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1903 Vol. 2. 123 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1903 Vol.3. 125 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1911 Vol. 2. 116 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1928 Vol. 4. 106 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1903 Vol. 2. 114 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1904 Vol. 4. 108 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1898 Vol. 1. 115 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
Vol. 6, 1928. 106 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1897 Vol. 2. 107 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1897 Vol. 3. 114 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
1897 Vol. 5. 105 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
Vol. 8, 1915. 108 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
Vol. 1, 1912. 107 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.