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MapA survey of the roads of the United States of America Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Phillips, 1326 Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On original paper cover in manuscript ink: "Collis's plan of the roads throughout the United States." Accompanied by broadside: Proposals for publishing A survey of...- Contributor: Colles, Christopher - Tiebout, Cornelius
- Date: 1789
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MapMap of the Mississippi River : from Cairo to Donaldsonville. "Showing bank erosion as derived from special survey made November 20, 1891 to March 20, 1892. Showing also the controlling line of levees in 1892." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Mississippi River Commission
- Date: 1892
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MapReal Estate Map Publishing Co's atlas of township of Proviso, Cook County, Illinois : including Riverside : being sections 1 to 36 inclusive, township 39 north, range 12 east of the 3rd ...
Atlas of township of Proviso, Cook County, Illinois "Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1914 by Real Estate Map Pub. Co." "Published in two volumes." Includes index. Copy imperfect: Looseleaf, portfolio, title page torn and repaired, fragile, torn along fold lines in center of other pages. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Real Estate Map Publishing Company
- Date: 1914
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Map[Book of running charts of the Yukon and Stewart rivers, 1913-1950 "Presented here is a book of 117 hand-drawn maps of the Yukon and Stewart Rivers in Canada and Alaska. The maps were made between 1913 and 1950 by Ralph W. Newcomb, who worked for many years as a pilot guide on these rivers. Originally part of a loose-leaf notebook, the maps show hazards on the rivers, including swift currents, eddies, mud bars, and sharp...- Contributor: Newcomb, Ralph W. - Wallace, George H.
- Date: 1913
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MapThe West-India pilot. Containing piloting directions for Port Royal Harbour in Jamaica, in and out through the kays ... The whole illustrated with a number of copper plates, finished by the best ... "Captain Joseph Smith Speer was an English mariner who spent many years in Central America and the Caribbean. He created detailed maps and guides based on his personal experiences. In 1766, he published The West-India Pilot, containing 13 maps and detailed navigational instructions for passage between Caribbean ports. An expanded edition with 26 maps appeared in 1771. Speer's instructions to mariners were practical and...- Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith
- Date: 1766
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MapMap of the world oceans, October 2012. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "October 2012." "803518AI (G03545) 10-12." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2012
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MapMap of the world oceans, January 2015. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "803745AI (G03545) 1-15." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2015
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MapRomania--TAROM air routes to non-communist countries : March 1977 : [the World]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "503284 3-77 (543247)." LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, annotated in black marker ink, fold-lined, taped at edges.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1977
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MapMap showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. Acquisitions Control no. 20-83- Contributor: J.H. Colton & Co. - Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss - G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
- Date: 1855
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MapMap showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance list. Acquisitions control no. 20-83- Contributor: J.H. Colton & Co. - Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss - G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
- Date: 1871
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MapTelegraph chart, America and Europe. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Charles Magnus & Co.
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MapTransport links North America to Asia. Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. "Map no. 840." "Confidential." Shows period when ports are ice free. LC copy annotated by colored tapes. Typed note pasted on: For Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes from Ruth Gruber. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 700/1; 710/2- Contributor: United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch. Geography Division - Ickes, Harold L. (Harold Leclair) - United States. Board of Economic Warfare
- Date: 1942
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MapGeneral railway map engraved expressly for the Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Porto[sic] Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba : comprising maps of the United ... Relief shown by hachures. Includes nine inset maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: National Railway Publication Company
- Date: 1918
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MapMap of North America from the latest authorities, showing the proposed railroad routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by J.H. Colton in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York." Includes list of "Geographical statistic's," distance list, and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 20-83- Contributor: J.H. Colton & Co. - Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss - Disturnell, John
- Date: 1854
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MapDiagram of the United States of America, Mexico, the West India Islands and Isthmus of Darien; by W. T. Steiger, General Land Office. Outline map of the United States and Middle America showing proposed routes of the Pacific Rail Road and its branches in connection with the various systems of existing and unfinished rail roads from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.- Contributor: Steiger, W. T. - United States. General Land Office
- Date: 1854
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MapThe route of the Alaska excursion steamers. "In the years after the Alaska Purchase in 1867, Americans had only a dim appreciation of the value and splendors of their new northern territory. This attitude changed slowly, and it was not fully overcome until the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 radically altered perceptions of the region's value. Even earlier, however, certain developments started to shift American views of Alaska. In particular, John...- Contributor: Fee, Charles S.
- Date: 1891
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MapNew map of Canada : New Brunswick, Nova Scotia &c. Shows railways, proposed railways, and canals. Signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, Bought at Montreal Augt. 19, 1863, $1.95. Annotated in red, sectioned into 33 and mounted on cloth. Includes insets of: Environs of Montreal and Newfoundland. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Bartholomew, John
- Date: 1860
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MapA map of the United States of North America Shows few roads and has "Tennassee Government" on sheet 3. Relief shown by hachures. In lower margins: London: Published as the act directs by A. Arrowsmith, Charles Street, Soho Square, Jan. 1st, 1796. This is Tooley's 1796 (a) issue of the map. R.V. Tooley, Mapping of America, 1980, 79. LC Trails, 18 Includes notes and illustration of and text about Niagara Falls. LC copy...- Contributor: Arrowsmith, Aaron
- Date: 1802
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MapA map of the United States exhibiting post roads & distances : the first sheet comprehending the nine northern states, with parts of Virginia and the territory north of Ohio
Map of the United States exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Handwritten on slip of paper affixed to map verso: "No. 154, title page of Map of United States deposited by Abm. Bradley junr. as author, Sept. 26th 1796." "W. Barker, sculp. Philada." Sheets joined to form 1 map. LC Trails, 30 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes mail transportation...- Contributor: Harrison, William - Bradley, Abraham - Barker, W. (William)
- Date: 1796
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MapMap of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys by Amos Lay, geographer & map publisher, New York. Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and proposed lines. Railroads are shown in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and a very small part of North Carolina from Rock Island to the northern boundary.- Contributor: Lay, Amos
- Date: 1834
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MapUnited States. The map covers the eastern half of the United States. Shows roads, canals, and railroads. Indicates state boundaries and many cities.- Contributor: Tanner, Henry Schenck
- Date: 1835
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MapMitchell's map of the United States : showing the principal travelling turnpike and common roads, on which are given the distances in miles from one place to another, also the courses of ... Shows longitude west from Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by S. Augustus Mitchell ..." The paper edition of this map appears in Bishop Davenport's A New Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary of North America . . . (Philadelphia, 1836). [From published bibliography] Cloth map. LC Railroad maps, 5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site...- Contributor: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus) - Mitchell, S. Augustus
- Date: 1836
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MapMap of the United States of North America with parts of the adjacent countries Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to the act of Congress, July 10th 1839, by David H. Burr, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Prime meridians: Washington D.C. and Greenwich. Includes notes within map. The boundary between Maine and Canada, established by the Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842, is shown by hand coloring. LC copy sectioned in 8...- Contributor: Burr, David H. - Arrowsmith, John
- Date: 1839
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MapA new map for travelers through the United States of America showing the railroads, canals & stage roads with the distances, "This 1846 map of the United States by John Calvin Smith is from Smith's The Illustrated Hand-book for Travelers through the United States. Smith published editions of this popular guide, each of which contained a foldout map of the United States, in 1846, 1847, 1849, 1851, and 1856. Framed in decorative borders, the map indicates drainage and state boundaries, shows cities and towns with...- Contributor: Sherman & Smith - Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin)
- Date: 1846
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MapMap of the United States, the British provinces, Mexico &c. : showing the routes of the U.S. mail steam packets to California, and a plan of the Gold Region Relief shown by hachures. Shows California's gold region and western trails. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by J. H. Colton in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York." Includes illustration of "Pyramid Lake, Upper California" and distance table. Insets: From New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn -- Map of the...- Contributor: Atwood, John M. - Fillmore, Millard
- Date: 1849