Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis

Item data

Title

Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis

Collection

Maps of North America
Countries
United States (except New York)
Parts

Names

Boston (Mass.). Engineering Department (Publisher)
Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester, 1813-1886 (Compiler)
Tappan & Bradford (Lithographer)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1851
Place: Boston :
Publisher: Tappan & Bradford's Lith.,

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 01-5294 [Filed with U.S. Railroads, [1850?], as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division]

Subjects

Railroads -- Northeastern States
Railroads -- United States
Maps

Genres

Maps

Notes

Content: Includes notes and distance chart.
Content: Insets: Map of rail roads in Massachusetts -- Boston Harbor & rail road termini : showing facilities for shipment and internal transmission of merchandise with existing wharves and proposed improvement of the flats at South Boston.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: NYPL copy imperfect: lacks upper right corner (part of distance chart) and parts of lower margin.
Content: Shows railroads in operation or under construction and projected railroads in the northeastern United States and part of Canada.
Citation/Reference: LC Railroad maps, 79
Statement Of Responsibility: compiled under the direction of the committee appointed by the City Council of Boston for celebrating the opening of railway communication between the waters of the Atlantic at Boston, the Canadas, and the Great West, by E.S. Chesbrough, city engineer.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map ; 60 x 82 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 5486681
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15107708
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3940ebc0-c52b-012f-3c2d-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1851

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