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Map of Mississippi and vicinity showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state, county, and township boundaries, and the railroad network, with emphasis on the main lines.
"This panoramic map shows Elkins, West Virginia, as it appeared in 1897. The city was developed as a railroad hub in the 1880s by two entrepreneurs and politicians: Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) and Stephen Benton Elkins (1841-1911), with the city named after the latter. Both men served terms representing West Virginia in the U.S. Senate. The map shows the city of Elkins along the Tygart's Valley River, with two bridges crossing the river--one for rail (adjacent to Railroad Avenue) and one for pedestrians and other transport (Davis Avenue). A train is seen on the far side of town, traveling on the West Virginia Central Railroad. The railroad enabled the success of industry involving the extraction of natural resources such as coal and timber. The index at the bottom of the map indicates points of interest, including the railroad hub, major industrial facilities, shops, schools, churches (Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist Colored, and United Brethren), and the opera house. The panoramic map was a cartographic form in popular use to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as bird's-eye views or perspective maps, these works are representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. This map is by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842-1922), one of the most prolific makers of panoramic maps. Fowler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and fought and was wounded in the American Civil War. After working for an uncle who was a photographer, in 1870 he established his own panoramic map firm. Over the course of a long career, Fowler made panoramic maps of cities in 21 states and parts of Canada." World Digital Library.
Map of Pennsylvania between Schuylkill Haven and Ashland showing drainage, relief by hachures, cities, towns, individual buildings, mines, mills, and the mining branch rail lines. Chartered on the March 24, 1828. 13 miles opened in 1831. Completed to Ashland in 1857. See entry 468.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows a meeting at the Guildhall in London on September 4, 1914, during which Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith encouraged military recruitment for World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
The map covers the eastern half of the United States. Shows roads, canals, and railroads. Indicates state boundaries and many cities.
General map of the eastern United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and place names. Railroads are annotated in brown, canals in blue.
Map of Pennsylvania showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network with lines named.
Map of the northeastern United States showing relief by hachures and shading, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network.
Topographic strip map showing proposed lines of survey. This is the earliest railroad map represented in the Library's map collections. It is listed as one of the "Rail Roads Never Before Delineated" by Henry S. Tanner in his Memoir on the Recent Surveys ... (Philadelphia, 1829). It was incorporated in June 1831 and was first intended forhorse-drawn power. [From published bibliography]
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matteks A great section of the estate of the late Jen SamuelF i Hersey was w illed to the city of Bangor for edr rational use Eighteen years before the testator had made his will a committee of the city council called upon totix tiie valuation fixed the value of the timber lands which he devised in trust to Bangor at 810108842 Six teen years later and two years before by the terms of the will the property could be divided the state assessors placed tiie valuation at 835378187 or 31200343 more than tiie valuation lixed by tiie trustees of the estate and the city council committee It is not surprising that the city is taking steps to secure its right to tin timber lands At tiie annual meeting of tiie Wo mans Aid Society of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor May 13th these officers were elected for tiie com ing year Pres Mrs Henry Lord 1st vice pres Mrs IN B Denio 2d vice pres Mrs K W Sawyer treas Miss Mary 11 Men ill sec Miss Jennie 1 Pickering The reports of tiie officers showed the hospital to he in a
Survey map and profile of part of Pennsylvania and Maryland from Gettysburg to the Potomac River. Shows relief by hachures along the line, creeks, roads, cities and towns. Chartered on January 9, 1838; constructed December 1, 1858.
Map of the eastern half of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, major cities and towns, canals, roads, telegraph lines, railroads, and unfinished railroads. [From published bibliography]
Map of an area between Philadelphia and Baltimore showing drainage, cities and towns, post roads, and boundaries. Chartered in Maryland in May, 1852. [From published bibliography].
Map of the western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stage routes, railroads completed and projected. Main lines in heavy black.
One of the earliest general maps of the eastern United States showing railroads in operation. The working lines are in blue, proposed lines are in green. Canals are shown in red and yellow. [From published bibliography]
Indicates railroads, principal towns, and a few batteries. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 449 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
The earliest general map to show the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company's line which began in Charleston, S.C. It was completed to Hamburg, S.C., in 1833. Its 136 miles of track were then the longest in the world.