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Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis
- Title
- Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis / 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.
- Author
- Boston (Mass.). Engineering Department.
- Publication
- Boston : Tappan & Bradford's Lith., [1851]
- Supplementary Content
- Image(s) via Library of Congress
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Supervised use | Map Div. 01-5294 | Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 map; 60 x 82 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Subjects
- Note
- Shows railroads in operation or under construction and projected railroads in the northeastern United States and part of Canada.
- Includes notes and distance chart.
- 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.
- Indexed In (note)
- LC Railroad maps
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 01-5294
- LCCN
- gm 70002892
- OCLC
- 5486681
- Author
- Boston (Mass.). Engineering Department.
- Title
- Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis / 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.
- Imprint
- Boston : Tappan & Bradford's Lith., [1851]
- Cartographic Data
- Scale [ca. 1:3,375,000].
- Indexed In:
- LC Railroad maps, 79
- Additional Formats
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Local Note
- NYPL copy imperfect: lacks upper right corner (part of distance chart) and parts of lower margin.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester, 1813-1886.Tappan & Bradford.
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 01-5294 [Filed with U.S. Railroads, [1850?], as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division]