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Map Map showing the Pacific Railroads and their branches; prepared for the United States Pacific Railway Commission.

About this Item

Title

  • Map showing the Pacific Railroads and their branches; prepared for the United States Pacific Railway Commission.

Summary

  • Map of the western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, Indian reservation, military posts, and the railroad network with main lines color coded. Red indicates lines "aided by U.S. Bonds."

Names

  • G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
  • Union Pacific Railway Company.

Created / Published

  • New York, [1887]

Headings

  • -  Union Pacific Railway Company--Maps
  • -  Railroads--West (U.S.)--Maps
  • -  United States--West

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:3,800,000.
  • -  LC Railroad maps, 512
  • -  Description derived from published bibliography.
  • -  2 copies, information not visible at center of map on second copy due to sheet overlaping.

Medium

  • col. map 57 x 83 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G4051.P3 1887 .G15

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98688758

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and Union Pacific Railway Company. Map showing the Pacific Railroads and their branches; prepared for the United States Pacific Railway Commission. [New York, 1887] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/98688758/.

APA citation style:

G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co & Union Pacific Railway Company. (1887) Map showing the Pacific Railroads and their branches; prepared for the United States Pacific Railway Commission. [New York] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98688758/.

MLA citation style:

G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and Union Pacific Railway Company. Map showing the Pacific Railroads and their branches; prepared for the United States Pacific Railway Commission. [New York, 1887] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98688758/>.