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    Railroad maps, 1828-1900
    Railroad maps collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the achievement of early railroaders. Included in the collection are progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way,...
    • Date: 1998
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    Railroad map of Indiana. Detailed township and county map distinguishing railroads by color and name. Includes a list of railroads in left margin, coded by color.
    • Contributor: Indiana. State Board of Tax Commissioners
    • Date: 1896
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    Railroad map of Iowa. Township and county map showing drainage, cities and towns. Railroads are distinguished by color and name.
    • Contributor: Iowa. Railroad Commissioners
    • Date: 1881
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    Lloyd's American railroad map. Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]
    • Contributor: Lloyd, James T.
    • Date: 1861
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    Railroad map of Indiana. Shows counties and county seats. A projected railroad is shown between Crawfordville and Gosport, and from Bloomington to Bedford. The "Easter Line of Coal Formation" is shown.
    • Contributor: Morris, Thomas A. - Morris, Thomas A. (Thomas Armstrong)
    • Date: 1852
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    [Railroad map of Africa]. Cloth map. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. In lower left corner: "The Wells Missionary Map Co., 3612 Prairie Avenue, Chicago." Pen-and-ink, pencil, crayon, and watercolor; place names mechanically printed in black ink. In upper right corner: "III." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wells Missionary Map Co.
    • Date: 1908
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    Railroad Map of Trinidad. This map, produced by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce in 1925, shows the railroad network of Trinidad. The main rail line in Trinidad was the Trinidad Government Railway, which originally was built in 1876 to connect the major city of Port of Spain with Arima. It later was extended to other inland towns. In addition to railroad lines and...
    • Contributor: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Transportation and Communication Department
    • Date: 1925
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Gospel temperance railroad map. Relief shown pictorially. "Copyright 1908, by G. E. Bula." In lower left corner: GEB 2-'08. Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bula, G. E.
    • Date: 1908
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    Railroad map of Texas, 1926 Index of railroads and lines. Includes 3 insets of Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Dodge, Ira D.
    • Date: 1926
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    Railroad map of Porto Rico. Shows location of stations (centrales) where sugar cane was delivered for processing. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Includes list of operating railroads in Puerto Rico.
    • Contributor: United States. Department of Commerce
    • Date: 1924
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    Gray's railroad map of Texas. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: O.W. Gray & Son
    • Date: 1877
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    Railroad Map of British Honduras. This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroad network of British Honduras (present-day Belize). Under the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, the Spanish Empire granted Britain the right to harvest timber in the region between the Hondo and Belize Rivers. In 1862 the crown colony of British Honduras was established. Apart from...
    • Contributor: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Transportation and Communication Department
    • Date: 1920
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    G. Woolworth Colton's railroad map of Illinois. Township map showing place names, counties, and the railroad system. At bottom of the map appear statements about the economic conditions of the state and its railroads.
    • Contributor: Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth) - Colton, G. Woolworth
    • Date: 1861
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    Cram's township and railroad map of Wyoming. Shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, townships and counties, roads, and railroads distinguished by name and number.
    • Contributor: Cram, George Franklin
    • Date: 1895
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    Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 Contains 623 maps chosen from more than 3,000 railroad maps and about 2,000 regional, state, and county maps, and other maps which show "internal improvements" of the past century. The maps presented here are a selection from the Geography and Map Division holdings, based on the popular cartobibliography, Railroad Maps of the United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th-century Maps in the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
    • Date: 1998

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    Cram's township and railroad map of Washington. Shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroads distinguished by color and name.
    • Contributor: Cram, George Franklin
    • Date: 1888
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    Cram's township and railroad map of Idaho. Indexed township and county map showing relief by hachures, drainage, and cities and towns. Railroads are distinguised by color.
    • Contributor: Cram, George Franklin
    • Date: 1896
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    Railroad map of Ohio
    Ohio railway map     David Keck, given in memory of George K. Elwing. Acquisitons control no. 2007-173. "The Forman-Bassett-Hatch Co., Cleveland, O." "Published by the state." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Ohio. Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs - Kirkby, William
    • Date: 1895
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    Official railroad map of Wisconsin, 1900 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Rice, Graham L.
    • Date: 1900
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    Railroad map of the state of Texas 971302 U.S. Copyright Office Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873 by Edward Vernon in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies
    • Date: 1873
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    Railroad & township map of Ohio. Detailed township map showing drainage, cities and towns, county and township boundaries, roads, and railroads.
    • Contributor: Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning
    • Date: 1854
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    Railroad commissioner's map of Mississippi. Shows drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with color coding.
    • Contributor: Rand McNally and Company
    • Date: 1888
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    Railroad map of Michigan prepared for the commissioner of railroads. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and railroads in color.
    • Contributor: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
    • Date: 1876
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    Colton's intermediate railroad map of the United States. Detailed map of the continental United States and part of Canada indicating drainage, international, state and county boundaries, cities and towns, railroads, with names along each line. Railroads under construction are indicated by dashed lines. [From published bibliography]
    • Contributor: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
    • Date: 1882
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    Colton's new railroad map of the United States & Canada. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and railroads distinguished by color.
    • Contributor: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
    • Date: 1876