Map of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific.
Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.
- Date
- 1853
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Johnson, Edwin Ferry
- Place
- the United States
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 10,099 × 6,506 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Map of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific." (1853). Johnson, Edwin Ferry. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_proposed_Northern_Route_for_a_railroad_to_the_Pacific._LOC_98688316.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17073.
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