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The railroaders, by the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler.
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- New York, Time-Life Books [1973]
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 74-267 Offsite Mission of the North American people; geographical, social, and political. New foreword by Wilson O. Clough.
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- New York, Da Capo Press, 1974
- 1973-1873
- 1 Item
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Coast to coast by railroad: the journey of Niles Searls--May, 1869. Edited by Frances G. Long.[Enl. ed [microform].
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- Cornwallville, N.Y.] Hope Farm Press & Book Shop [1972]
- 1972-1969
A great and shining road : the epic story of the transcontinental railroad / John Hoyt Williams.
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- New York, N.Y. : Times Books, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 88-2291 Offsite Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Pacific railroad bill, and the physical geography of the country between the states of Missouri and California, with a view to show its adaptation to settlement, and to the construction of a railroad. In the House of Representatives, January 16, 1855.
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- Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1855.
- 1855
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JBX F-453 Offsite A great & shining road : the epic story of the transcontinental railroad / John Hoyt Williams.
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- New York : Times Books, [1989], c1988.
- 1989-1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 93-10727 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Trails, rails and war; the life of General G. M. Dodge, by J. R. Perkins.
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- Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [c1929]
- 1929
- 1 Item
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The central gold region. The grain, pastoral and gold regions of North America. With some new views of its physical geography; and observations on the Pacific railroad. By William Gilpin ...
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- Philadelphia, Sower, Barnes & Co.; St. Louis, E.K. Woodward, 1860.
- 1860
- 1 Item
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The confederation of the British North American provinces; their past history and future prospects; including also British Columbia & Hudson's bay territory; with a map, and suggestions in reference to the true and only practicable route from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. By Thomas Rawlings.
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- London, S. Low, son, and Marston, 1865.
- 1865
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HV (Rawlings, T. Confederation of the British North American provinces) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
John Palmer Usher, Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior, by Elmo R. Richardson and Alan W. Farley.
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- Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1960.
- 1960
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IKA (Richardson, E. R. John Palmer Usher) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Die Santa Fe- und Südpacificbahn in Nordamerika. Von Robert von Schlagintweit.
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- Köln, E. H. Mayer, 1884.
- 1884
- 1 Item
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The star of the west; or, National men and national measures.
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- New York, Miller, Orton & Co., 1857.
- 1857
- 1 Item
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Early railroad days in New Mexico.
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- Santa Fe, Stagecoach Press, 1965 [c1932]
- 1965-1932
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New tracks in North America; a journal of travel and adventure whilst engaged in the survey for a southern railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867-8. With contributions by W. J. Palmer [and others]
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- Albuquerque, N.M., Horn and Wallace [1965]
- 1965
- 1 Item
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New tracks in North America : a journal of travel and adventure whilst engaged in the survey for a southern railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867-8 / by William A. Bell ... With contributions by General W. J. Palmer, Major A. R. Calhoun, C. C. Parry ... and Captain W. F. Colton.
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- London : Chapman and Hall, 1869.
- 1869
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Stuart 5868-5869 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Echoes from the Rocky mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West : with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development / By John W. Clampitt.
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- Chicago : Belford, Clarke & co., 1889.
- 1889-1888
- 1 Item
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Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6] ...
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- Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.] 1855-60.
- 1855-1860
- 17 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR+ (U.S. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 11 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR+ (U.S. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 12, pt. 1 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR+ (U.S. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 12, pt. 2 Offsite Where to emigrate and why. Homes and fortunes in the boundless West and the sunny South ... with a complete history and description of the Pacific railroad. By Frederick B. Goddard.
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- Philadelphia, Cincinnati [etc.] The Peoples publishing company, 1869.
- 1869
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The story of the western railroads from 1852 through the reign of the giants.
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- Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1963, c1926]
- 1963-1926
- 1 Item
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Report of surveys across the continent, in 1867-'68, on the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels, for a route extending the Kansas Pacific railway to the Pacific ocean at San Francisco and San Diego. By Gen. Wm. J. Palmer. December 1st, 1868.
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- Philadelphia, W. B. Selheimer, printer, 1869.
- 1869
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Palmer, W. J. Report of surveys across the continent) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union Pacific) (Palmer, W. J. Report of surveys across the continent) 1869 Offsite Discourse of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, before the Maryland Institute, on the physical geography of the country between Missouri and California, with a view to show its adaptation to settlement, and the construction of a railroad. Delivered at Baltimore, Tuesday evening, December 5, 1854.
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- [n.p., 1854?]
- 1854
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How to go West : a guide to southern Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, California and the whole great West.
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- Chicago : Horton & Leonard, Railroad Printer, 1872.
- 1872
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KW (Touzalin, A. E. How to go West) Offsite They built the West; an epic of rails and cities, by Glenn Chesney Quiett.
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- New York, London, D. Appleton-Century Company, incorporated, 1934.
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TAH (Quiett, G. C. They built the West) Offsite Orient meets occident; the advent of the railways to the Pacific Northwest, by Enoch A. Bryan ...
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- Pullman, Wash., The Students book corporation [c1936]
- 1936
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Bryan, E. Orient meets occident) Offsite A lecture on the railroad to the Pacific. Delivered August 12, 1850, at the Smithsonian institute, Washington. At the request of numerous members of both houses of Congress. By Rev. Calvin Colton.
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- New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850.
- 1850
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Colton, C. Lecture on the railroad to the Pacific) Offsite Paper read before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, at its 21st annual reunion at Toledo, O., Sept. 15, 1888. By Maj.-Gen. Grenville M. Dodge ... Together with comments thereon by Gen. Wm. T. Sherman ...
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- New York, Styles & Cash, printers, 1888.
- 1888
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Check with Staff Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Dodge, G. Paper read before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee) Offsite Henry Villard and the railways of the Northwest.
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- New Haven, Yale university press; London, H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1930.
- 1930
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Hedges, J. B. Henry Villard and the railways of the Northwest) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Hedges, J. B. Henry Villard and the railways of the Northwest) Offsite The story of the western railroads, by Robert Edgar Riegel.
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- New York, The MacMillan company, 1926.
- 1926
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Riegel, R. E. Story of the western railroads) Offsite Improvement of communication with the Pacific Coast as an issue in American politics, 1783-1864.
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- Cedar Rapids, Ia., Torch-Press, 1948.
- 1948
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Russel, R. R. Improvement of communication with the Pacific Coast) Offsite In the Senate of the United States, May 1, 1896 : ordered to be printed / Mr. Gear, from the Committee on Pacific Railroads, submitted the following report [to accompany S.2894.]
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- [Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.], 1896.
- 1896
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433010112435Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (United States. Pacific Railroads, Committee on. Views of the minority) Offsite The Central Pacific railroad co. Its relations to the government. It has performed every obligation. Oral argument of Creed Haymond, its general solicitor, made before the Select committee of the U.S. Senate ... March 17th and 26th and April 7th, 1888 ... Reported by James L. Andem.
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- [San Francisco. Press of H. S. Crocker & co., 1888?]
- 1888
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Central) (Haymond, C. Central Pacific Railroad Co. ) 1888 Offsite Pacific railroads. Argument of Creed Haymond before Senate Committee, March 17th-[April 7] 1888. The Central Pacific railroad company has performed every obligation.
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- [Washington? 1888]
- 1888
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Central) (Haymond, C. Pacific railroads) Offsite The story of the railroad, by Cy Warman ...
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- New York, D. Appleton and company, 1898.
- 1898
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Warman, C. Story of the railroad. 1898) Offsite Address of the people of San Francisco to the members of Congress.
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- [San Francisco? 1895]
- 1895
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPF (Address of the people of San Francisco) Offsite Acts of Congress relating to and affecting the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and their branches. Carefully compared with the original acts on file in the Department of State, with annotations by Theos. French ...
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- [S.l.] Printed for the companies, 1883.
- 1883
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union and Central Pacific Railroads) (United States. Statutes. Acts of Congress relating to and affecting the Union and Central Pacific Railroads) Offsite Survey of a route for the Southern Pacific R.R., on the 32d parallel, by A.B. Gray, for the Texas Western R.R. Company.
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- Cincinnati, O., Wrightson & Co.'s ("Railroad record") print, 1856.
- 1856
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Texas Western R. R. ) (Gray, A. B. Survey of a route for the Southern Pacific R. R. ) 1856 Offsite Die Pacific-Eisenbahn in Nordamerika. Von Robert von Schlagintweit.
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- Cöln, Leipzig, E. H. Mayer; New York, L. W. Schmidt, 1870.
- 1870
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Pacific-Eisenbahn) (Schlagintweit, R. von. Pacific-Eisenbahn in Nordamerika) 1870 Offsite Senatorial excursion party over the Union Pacific Railway, E. D. ; speeches of Senators Yates ... [and others] on the Pacific rail road question. Delivered at the banquet given to them by the City council, and Merchants' exchange, at the Southern hotel, St. Louis, June 14, 1867. Proceedings of meetings of excursionists held at Fort Harker, Kan., June 7 and 8, 1867. Speeches of Senators Cameron ... [and others]. Proceedings of meetings of citizens of New Mexico, held at Santa Fe, September 21, 1867, and address of Gen. Wm. J. Palmer. Report of president of Union Pacific railway, E. D. made to secretary of the interior for the year ending September 30, 1867. Exhibit of earnings, &c.
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- St. Louis, S. Levinson, printer, 1867.
- 1867
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union Pacific Railway Company. Senatorial excursion party over the Union Pacific Railway) 1867 Offsite Three studies in railroading / compliments, Passenger Department, Union Pacific System.
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- Omaha, Neb. : The Company, c1896.
- 1896
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433067358972Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union Pacific Railroad Co. Three studies in railroading) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union Pacific Railroad Co. Three studies in railroading) Offsite The Union Pacific railroad from Omaha, Nebraska, across the continent : making, with its connections, an unbroken line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : chartered by the United States : its construction, resources, earnings, and prospects.
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- New York : Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, [1867]
- 1867
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS p.v. 3, no. 1 no. 1-10 Offsite Report of the commission and of the minority commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission : appointed ... March 3, 1887 ... / reported by Charles P. Young.
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- Washington : G.P.O., 1887.
- 1887
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Union Pacific Railway) (United States. Pacific Railway Commission. Report of the commission and of the minority commissioner) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Pacific railways and nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest, 1845-1873 ... [by] Leonard Bertram Irwin.
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- Philadelphia, 1939.
- 1939
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPT (Irwin, L. B. Pacific railways and nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest) 1939 Offsite Romantic realities : the story of the building of the Pacific roads, as told by the engineer whose genius found a pathway over the mountains : a paper on the Trans-Continental Railways / by G.M. Dodge.
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- Omaha, Neb. : J.S. Tebbets, 1889.
- 1889
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS+ (Union Pacific Railroad) (Dodge, G. M. Romantic realities) 1889 Offsite Memorial for a national rail-road, from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean : to the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled.
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- [s.l. : s.n.], 1846.
- 1846
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR+ (Wilkes, G. Memorial for a national rail-road) Offsite Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6] ...
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- Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, printer [etc.] 1855-60.
- 1855-1860
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-OAG+ (U.S. War Department. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 12, Book 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IW+ (U.S. War Department. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 12, pt. 1 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IW+ (United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys) v. 12, pt. 2 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Memorial against Mr. Asa Whitney's railroad scheme.
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- [Washington] Buell & Blanchard, printers [1951]
- 1851
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Plumbe, J. Memorial against Mr. Asa Whitney's railroad scheme) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail-road to San Francisco, at their public meeting, held at the U.S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849, including an address to the people of the U. States; showing that, P.P.F. Degrand's plan is the only one ... which will secure promptly and certainly ... the construction of a railroad to California ...
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- Boston, Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1849.
- 1849
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Proceedings of the friends of a rail-road to San Francisco) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report of Lieut. Col. James H. Simpson, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., on the change of route west from Omaha, Nebraska Territory, proposed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company : made to Honorable James Harlan, secretary of the interior, September 18, 1865 : with the President's decision thereon.
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- Washington [D.C.] : Govt. Print. Off., 1865.
- 1865
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Simpson, J. H. Report of Lieut. Col. James H. Simpson) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR p.v. 18 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Address of Mr. A. Whitney, before the legislature of Pennsylvania : on his project for a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific.
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- Harrisburg, Pa. : I.G. M'Kinley & J.M.G. Lescure, printers, 1848.
- 1848
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Whitney, A. Address before the Legislature of Penn...) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Memorial of Asa Whitney : praying a grant of public land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean; Feb. 24, 1846; referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
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- [Washington] : Ritchie & Heiss, print., 1846.
- 1846
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Whitney, A. Memorial of A. Whitney) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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