Contributor:
Southern Continental Railroad - Palmer, William Jackson
Date:1867-01-01
Map
Map exhibiting the several Pacific railroads
Detailed map of the continental United States indicating drainage, relief by hachures, international and state boundaries, cities & towns, forts, roads, and the railroad network. [From published bibliography]
Contributor:
Rand McNally and Company - United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics
Date:1883-01-01
Article
Early Twentieth Century
Not all the commercial mapping ventures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represented large and diversified operations. Several interesting manuscript maps of the mid-western states portray routes of the "Railway Mail Service" and locate working post offices. These maps were designed by an enterprising Chicago railway mail clerk, Frank H. Galbraith in 1897.