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Skeleton 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 on the seaboard.

Title: Skeleton 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 on the seaboard.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands.
Publication: Washington, D.C. [s.n., 1849]
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Supervised use	Map Div. 01-5295	Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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Additional Authors

Breese, Sidney, 1800-1878.

Description

1 map : hand col.; 57 x 92 cm.

Summary

Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

Railroads > United States > Maps

Note

"Printed by order of the Senate of the United States the 9th Sess. 31st Congress 1848-9."
Railroad lines hand col. in red ink.
"Accompanied with a report from Hon. Sidney Breese, for granting land to the state of Illinois to aid in the completion of her rail roads."
Includes tables of travel times.
Description derived from published bibliography.

Indexed In (note)

LC Railroad maps
Phillips. Maps of America

Additional Formats (note)

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Call Number

Map Div. 01-5295

LCCN

98688309

OCLC

42763098

Author

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands.

Title

Skeleton 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 on the seaboard.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. [s.n., 1849]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:3,400,000].

Additional Formats

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Indexed In:

LC Railroad maps, 13

Phillips. Maps of America, p. 899

Local Note

NYPL copy lacks pieces of map on the lower left corner.

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Added Author

Breese, Sidney, 1800-1878.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 01-5295

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