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Library of Congress1851

Map of the Tehuantepec Railroad : from Jaltipec river to Boca del Monte

A proposed railroad route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Also shows alternative routes, roads, streams, and settlements. Relief shown pictorially and by contours and spot heights. Manuscript: Pencil, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolors. Handwritten note attached on looseleaf paper In top left corner: Tehuantepec Railway Company. Map of the Tehuantepec Railroad from Jaltipec river to Boca del Monte, 1851. [anon. Ms.] fold. 35 x 139, [n.p. 1851]. Accompanied by six manuscript sheets of an unidentified sketch map of a segment related to the railroad showing a large stream containing what appear to be soundings. Sketch map contains information relevant to the river portion of the proposed combined rail-water route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, filed separately G4412.T2 Imperfect: Fragile, discoloration, staining, and torn at sheet edges. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 544 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1856

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress. December 2, 1856. -- Read. December 11, 1856. -- Ordered, that the message and accompanying documents be printed, and that 15,000 additional copies thereof be printed for the use of the Senate

Accompanying documents follow p. 27. Annual reports of the Surveyors General, p. 238. Report of Coast Survey Office relative to progress of survey of keys and islands on the coast of Florida, p. 549. Report of Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, p. 880. Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, p. 554. Report of the Commissioner of Pensions, p. 833. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, p. 849. Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, p. 189. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, p. 174. Report of the Warden of the Penitentiary, p. 865. SERIALSETDELIVERY1

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Library of Congress1851

[Sketch map of the Tehuantepec Railroad]

An unidentified sketch map of a segment related to the railroad showing a large stream. Sketch map contains information relevant to the river portion of the proposed combined rail-water route across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Relief shown pictorially. Title devised by cataloger from the LUSO-Hispanic World in Maps. Manuscript: Pen-and-ink (black and red) with pencil annotations on 6 sheets cut into irregular triangle and rectangle shapes on paper. Accompanies the Map of the Techuantepec Rail Road, 1851: G4412.T42 1851 .T4. Imperfect: Fragile, fold-lined, cracked, holes and staining throughout. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 544 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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