Statement Of Responsibility: compiled, engraved and published by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., No. 172 William St., New York.
Content: Covers United States as far west as the Great Plains, and southern Canada between Michigan and Maine.
Content: Shows railroad lines, railroad stations, distances between stations, cities and towns, state and county boundaries.
Content: Selected railroad lines highlighted with hand coloring.
Content: Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich.
Date: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1869 ..."
Content: Insets: Vicinity of New York -- Map of the railroads of New England on an enlarged scale -- General map of the United States showing the railroad routes across the continent.
Content: Includes notes.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 176 x 210 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 938686464
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20643985
Other local Identifier: US016.3.01
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c9a0e270-b87f-0133-e6d6-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1879

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Colton's railroad & commercial map of the United States & Canada" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1879. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9a0e270-b87f-0133-e6d6-00505686a51c

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1879). Colton's railroad & commercial map of the United States & Canada Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9a0e270-b87f-0133-e6d6-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Colton's railroad & commercial map of the United States & Canada" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 4, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9a0e270-b87f-0133-e6d6-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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