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Title: Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1855

Publishers

  • [Washington, D.C.] : Office of P. R. R. Surveys, 1855 (N[ew] Y[ork] : Lith. of Bien & Sterner)

Summary

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state."

Subjects

  • Railroads—West (U.S.)—Maps
  • Pacific railroads—Explorations and surveys—Maps
  • Maps—West (U.S.)—1855
  • Railroad maps—West (U.S.)—1855
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-128.610077, -86.33194, 51.870556, 25.284438)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-128.610077, -86.33194, 51.870556, 25.284438)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble), 1830-1882. Map of routes for a Pacific railroad. [Washington, D.C.] : Office of P. R. R. Surveys, 1855 (N[ew] Y[ork] : Lith. of Bien & Sterner). Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-7w62fb583

Format

TIFF

Languages

  • eng