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Through route west to Pittsburg (sic)
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Through route west to Pittsburg (sic)

Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing existing routes and, in red, the advantages of the proposed Metropolitan Railroad connections. The state of Maryland authorized extension of this line to Cumberland in January 1853.

Date
1853
Mapmaker / publisher
Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D.C); Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D.C)
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
11,334 × 5,607 pixels

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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.

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"Through route west to Pittsburg (sic)" (1853). Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D.C); Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D.C). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Through_route_west_to_Pittsburg_(sic)_LOC_98688710.jpg

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