Map of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific
Johnson, Edwin Ferry,
1803-1872
cartographic
map
ctu
monographic
Hartford, Conn
1853
eng
map 52 x 83 cm.
Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.
Reproduced in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3. (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63), p. 193.
Description derived from published bibliography.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Scale ca. 1:6,750,000.
Railroads
United States
Maps
United States
G3701.P3 1853 J6
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000240
LC Railroad maps,
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