Map of routes for a Pacific railroad
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." In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the illegible, Department of the Interior." Annotations in ink at lower center.
- Date
- 1855
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble); United States. War Department. Office Of P. R. R. Surveys; Bien & Sterner; Warren, G. K
- Place
- the United States
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 7,136 × 6,383 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
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Credit line
"Map of routes for a Pacific railroad" (1855). Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble); United States. War Department. Office Of P. R. R. Surveys; Bien & Sterner; Warren, G. K. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_routes_for_a_Pacific_railroad_LOC_2007626788.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16411.
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