02216cem a2200469 4500 5399957 20250607182837.6 aj|canzn cr|||| 710617s1849 nyud a 0 eng 5399957 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 y-geogmaps LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-893 gm 71000953 (DLC)gm 71000953 DLC DLC DLC G3701.P3 1849 .W5 RR 14 3701 P3 lcg Whitney, Asa, 1797-1872. Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi. N[ew] Y[ork] Miller's Lith. [1849] map 38 x 46 cm. Title from C. I. Wheat's Mapping the transmississippi west. Relief shown by hachures. At top of map: No. 2. From the author's A project for a railroad to the Pacific. Includes distance chart showing distances via Northern Route, Southern Route, Galveston Route, and St. Louis Route. Scale ca. 1:15,500,000. LC Railroad maps, 14 Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Railroads United States Maps. Maps. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026387 Miller & Co. United States. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu g3701p rr000140 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000140 c AACR2 GMD/RRMAP ammem GMD/TRNSMAP ammem 20000215 c-G&M G3701.P3 1849 .W5 Copy 1 MAPS