Collection Items
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MapA new map for travelers through the United States of America showing the railroads, canals & stage roads with the distances, A detailed general map of the eastern half of the United States, framed in decorative borders, with most of the details east of the Mississippi River. Indicates drainage, state boundaries and shows many cities and towns with distances along roads and railroads. Indian tribes are indicated west of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Sherman & Smith - Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin)
- Date: 1846-01-01
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MapMap of the canals & rail roads of the United States, reduced from the large map of the U.S.; engraved by J. Knight. General map of the eastern United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and place names. Railroads are annotated in brown, canals in blue.
- Contributor: Knight, J. W. - Tanner, Henry Schenck
- Date: 1840-01-01
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MapMap shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with other rail roads executed or in progress throughout the United States. Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Edward Weber & Co
- Date: 1840-01-01
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MapMap of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with proposed extension to Cleveland, Wooster, Sandusky, Toledo, Cincinnati; Michigan City, Chicago, Galena, Rock Island, St. Louis, &a; in connection with the ... Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at lower right of map. Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad is part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. See entry 517.
- Contributor: Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad
- Date: 1840-01-01
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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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MapMap of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad from Portsmouth, Va. to Weldon, N.C. showing its connection with railroad & steamboat routes, Outline map showing area from Pottsville, Pa., to Macon, Ga. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Bouvé, Ephraim W. - Carter, T. J.
- Date: 1847-01-01
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MapMap of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic] with proposed extensions to Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis, in connexion [sic] with the public works of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Outline map showing major drainage, some relief by hachures, state boundaries, canals, and important place names. Finished and proposed railroads are indicated.
- Contributor: Sheaff, J. A.
- Date: 1840-01-01
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MapTraveller's map of the middle, northern, eastern states and Canada showing all the railroad, steamboat, canal and principal stage routes. Map covers the northeastern portion of the United States.
- Contributor: Disturnell, John
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapA map of the New England states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut with the adjacent parts of New York & Lower Canada; compiled and published by Nathan Hale, ... Detailed county and township map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, cities and towns, roads, railroads, and railroad stations.
- Contributor: Hale, Nathan
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapMap showing the proposed rail roads from Boston to Burlington, from Hale's map of New England. Outline map of eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and northern Massachusetts showing four proposed railroad routes. A list of distances appear below the title.
- Contributor: J.H. Bufford & Co
- Date: 1844-01-01
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MapMap of the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad, shewing its connection with other railroads. Map showing parts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine indicating county lines, cities, towns, and the railroad network. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Carter, T. J. - J.H. Bufford & Co
- Date: 1845-01-01
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MapSketch of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and parts of New Hampshire & New York exhibiting the several rail road routes completed, constructing, chartered & contemplated; published by order ... General map showing drainage, cities, towns, state and county boundaries.
- Contributor: Kennedy, Archibald
- Date: 1846-01-01
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MapMap of railways in New England and part of New York; engraved by D. C. Hitchcock for the Pathfinder Railway Guide. Scale [ca. 1:2,700,000]. LC Railroad maps, 101 Description derived from published bibliography. At top of map: "See paragraph headed Our Railway Map." On the verso: City of Boston. 18 x 14 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Snow & Wilder - Hitchcock, Dewitt C.
- Date: 1847-01-01
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MapMap of rail road routes from Rouse's Point to Portsmouth and Boston; compiled for the Cocheco Railroad Co. November, 1848. Map shows Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Includes a table of distances and indicates "constructed & completed" and "contemplated & chartered" railroads. The Cocheco line was chartered on July 2, 1847.
- Contributor: Cocheco Railroad - Parrott, George B.
- Date: 1848-01-01
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MapMap of railways in New England and part of New York; engraved by E. A. Teulon, expressly to accompany the Pathfinder Railway Guide. Shows railroads in operation and some proposed lines. Indicates state boundaries, cities and towns, and main drainage.
- Contributor: George K. Snow & Co
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapRailroad map of New England & eastern New York complied from the most authentic sources. Shows county and township boundaries, and "Railroads completed, located and in progress."
- Contributor: Goldthwait, J. H.
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapMap of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad from Concord to Haverhill, N.H. Map covers parts of Belknap, Carroll, Grafton, and Merrimac counties, N.H. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Crocker, William P. - J.H. Bufford & Co - Morgan, Charles
- Date: 1845-01-01
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MapMap of part of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, showing the location of the Wilton and other railroads Shows area of Cheshire, Hillsborough, and northern part of Middlesex county. Chartered December 28, 1844.
- Contributor: Wilton Railroad Company
- Date: 1847-01-01
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MapMap & profile of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, Wm. B. Gilbert, Chief Engineer, Jany. 1st, 1848. Includes a table of distances from Boston to New York. Shows rail lines from Burlington, Vt., south to Bellows Falls in Windham Co., Vt., and includes drainage and topography on both sides of the line. Indicates county and township boundaries. Chartered November 1, 1843. Name changed November 6, 1847.
- Contributor: Rutland and Burlington Railroad - Gilbert, William B.
- Date: 1848-01-01
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MapMap of the Boston & Woonsocket rail road routes compiled from the state map, and the plans of the different surveys returned to the joint standing committee on railroads & canals. Map of eastern Massachusetts showing drainage, place names, and township lines. [From published bibliography]
- Contributor: Bouvé, Ephraim W.
- Date: 1847-01-01
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MapMap of rail road surveys from Worcester to Baldwinville & N.H. line. Map of northern half of Worcester County, Mass., showing drainage, cities, and townships. Shows beginning of survey north of Worcester and the survey for part of the Winchendon branch of the Fitchburg Railroad.
- Contributor: Bouvé, Elisha W.
- Date: 1845-01-01