Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the
Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
- Date
- 1849
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Whitney, Asa; Miller & Co
- Place
- the United States
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 7,542 × 6,345 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 without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the" (1849). Whitney, Asa; Miller & Co. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_without_title_showing_the_railroad_route_to_Santa_Fe_and_San_Diego;_the_central_route_through_South_Pass_and_on_to_San_Francisco_and_%22Puget%27s_Sound,%22_and_connecting_railroads_east_of_the_LOC_gm71000953.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17830.
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