Collection Items
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MapMap, exhibiting the railway route between Baltimore & St. Louis, together with the other principal lines in the eastern, middle & western states; prepared under the direction of B. H. Latrobe, Ch. ... Map covers area from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Va., and west to the Mississippi River.
- Contributor: Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry)
- Date: 1843-01-01
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MapMap of the United States of America to accompany Doggett's rail road guide. "The working lines of railroad are shown in color." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington D.C. Includes inset "Map of Oregon, California &c.". LC copy imperfect: foldlined, darkened along folds, lacking lower left corner. LC Railroad maps, 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Doggett, John
- Date: 1847-01-01
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MapSkeleton map showing the rail roads completed and in progress in the United States and their connection as proposed with the harbor of Pensacola, and its relative position to the various important ... Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House
- Date: 1848-01-01
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MapSkeleton map showing the Rail Roads completed and in progress in the United States, and those projected through the Public Lands and their connection with the principal harbours on the Lakes and ... Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. Similar to entry no. 11.
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate
- Date: 1848-01-01
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MapMap without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of ... Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
- Contributor: Miller & Co - Whitney, ASA
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapComplete railway map designed and engraved from the original maps, charts and schedules furnished by railway engineers, agents &c to accompany the American Railway Guide. To the right of the map is an advertisement stating "American Railway Guide for the United States. Published Monthly."
- Contributor: Dinsmore, Curran
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapMap showing the N.E. & S.W. Alabama R.R. with its connections also the principal routes between New York and New Orleans. Outline map of the eastern United states including Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. Shows the railroad network and steamship routes. Indicates the railroad land grant and the coal and iron deposits in Alabama. Distances from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, La. are shown below the title. Chartered in 1853 and 1854. Consolidated with the Wills Valley Railroad, forming the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.
- Contributor: North East and South West Alabama Railroad - Hoyer & Ludwig
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapPennsylvania's great highway and its tributary lines. Map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, some relief by hachures, cities and towns, the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and connecting lines.
- Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapMap of the central portion of the United States showing the lines of the proposed Pacific railroads. Strip map of the United States between 36 degrees and 47 degrees north latitude. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, place names, and some trails in the western half of the map. Indicates the proposed lines for the western, central, and eastern divisions of the Union Pacific Railroad.
- Contributor: Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapDinsmore & Company's new and complete map of the railway system of the United States and Canada; compiled from official sources, under the direction of the editor of the "American Railway Guide." Map of the eastern United States to about the 96th Meridian showing operating and projected railroads.
- Contributor: Dinsmore, Curran
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapSketch illustrating the positions of the commercial cities and towns of the Eastern, Middle and Western States with the principal existing and proposed lines of communication. Shows the United States between Maine and Virginia, west ot the Mississippi River. Indicates railroads and canals.
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapMap of Pennsylvania Railroad with its connections, showing the different routes, projected or constructed between the seaboard & the western states. Map of the northeastern and north-central States showing the existing and projected railroad network. Chartered April 13, 1846.
- Contributor: Pennsylvania Railroad - Friend & Aub
- Date: 1851-01-01
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MapSkeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis, Scale ca. 1:3,375,000. Shows railroads in operation or under construction and projected railroads in the northeastern United States and part of Canada.. LC Railroad maps, 79 Includes distance chart and insets "Map of rail roads in Massachusetts" and "Boston harbor & rail road termini." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Same as G3711.P3 1851 .B6 (81-692879) AACR2
- Contributor: Boston (Mass.). Engineering Department - Tappan & Bradford - Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester
- Date: 1851-01-01
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MapMap of the western railroads tributary to Philadelphia, with their rival lines; prepared under the direction of Charles Ellet Jr., Civil Engineer. Covers area from Jefferson City, Mo., to New Haven, Conn., and from Oswego, N.Y., to Blakely, N.C.
- Contributor: Ellet, Charles
- Date: 1851-01-01
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MapMap of the Virginia Central R.R. and its proposed connections. Outline map of the eastern portion of the United States showing the proposed and completed railroad network, and indicating, in red and blue, the main connections to the Virginia Central R. R. The line became a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1868. See entry 365.
- Contributor: Virginia Central Railroad Company - Ruggles, T. C.
- Date: 1852-01-01
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MapMap of the railroads in the United States in operation and progress : to accompany a report from the Treasury Department
United States rail roads 1852 Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. LC U.S. railroad maps 25 Insets: Map of Florida.--Map of Texas. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Date appears in RR bibliography as 1854. AACR2: 100; 650/1- Contributor: Andrews, Israel D. (Israel Dewolf) - Ackerman Lithr - Fillmore, Millard - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852-01-01
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MapMap of Chicago & Rock Island, Peoria and Bureau Valley, and Mississippi & Missouri railroads; with their connections to New York. Outline map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing "railroads completed or in progress" and "railroads proposed & authorized unless named as 'projected.'"
- Contributor: Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company - Leefe, George E.
- Date: 1852-01-01
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Map[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.
- Contributor: McAlpine, William J. (William Jarvis)
- Date: 1853-01-01
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MapMap of the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad showing the connections, 1853, J. B. Westbrook, Chief Engineer. Outline map of the middle Atlantic and midwestern states showing the railroad network in operation and under construction. Chartered in 1852 and opened to traffic in 1857.
- Contributor: Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad - Westbrook, J. B.
- Date: 1853-01-01
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MapMap of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific. Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.
- Contributor: Johnson, Edwin Ferry
- Date: 1853-01-01
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MapMap of all the railroads in the United States in operation and progress; drawn and engraved under direction of the editor of the American railroad journal. Map of the eastern United States to about the 95th Meridian showing operating and projected railroads.
- Contributor: McLellan, David
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapRail road map accompanying the report an[d] exhibit of the Logansport & Northern Indiana Railroad showing its connections and the through route from St. Louis to New York of which this road ... Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing drainage, relief by hachures, place names, and state boundaries. Chartered as the Auburn and Eel River Valley Rail Road on March 8, 1853. Name changed August 3, 1853.
- Contributor: Nash, L. S. - Logansport and Northern Indiana Railroad
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapMap of all the railroads in the United States in operation and progress. Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network. In 1923 Poor's Publishing Company of New York issued a reduced redrawing of this map measuring 46 x 50 cm.
- Contributor: Poor, Henry V. (Henry Varnum) - McLellan, David
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapH. V. Poor's rail road map showing particularly the location and connections of the North East & South West Alabama Rail Road, by E. D. Sanford, Civil Engineer. Covers the United States from the Mississippi River east, and from Maine to northern Florida. Includes drainage, relief by hachures, place names, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network.
- Contributor: Sanford, E. D. - North East and South West Alabama Railroad
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapMap showing the principal rail road in the middle & adjoining states, in operation & in progress. Map of the north-central and middle Atlantic states showing cities, the railroad network, and the coal region boundaries.
- Contributor: Schuchman, William - Veeder, N.
- Date: 1854-01-01