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Library of Congress1906

Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a copy of the report made by the Auditor of the Post Office Department in the case of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company for services rendered by it... in carrying the United States mails on certain routes in Georgia prior to May 31, 1861... April 2, 1906. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1862

Rail road map of the southern states shewing the southern & southwestern railway connections with Philadelphia

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Thomas Kimber Jr." Inset: Southern part of Florida. 25 x 18 cm. Map depicts rail lines, roads, cities and towns, state and county boundaries, and rivers. 1863 edition published by Willis. P. Hazard is listed as Civil War Maps entry no. 44. Geography and Map Division also has an uncolored issue with annotations made by the Topographer, U. S. Post Office Department. Another uncolored copy, in covers, is in the Samuel P. Heintzelman papers, Manuscript Division, LC, container no. 11. Cover title: Map of the southern states. Map is in 29 parts, 16 x 12 cm. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:1,880,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 31.5 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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