Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific, engd. by Rae Smith.

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Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific, engd. by Rae Smith.

Lloyd, James T.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[New York], 1859.

SUMMARY
Outline map of the continental United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, forts, finished and proposed railroads. [From published bibliography]

NOTES
Scale ca. 1:6,500,000.

Relief shown by hachures.

Portraits of 28 railroad presidents are reproduced in the border, including: John Robin McDaniel, Jacob Strader, J. D. De Frees, John Caldwell, C. A. Brown, J. Edgar Thompson, Thos. D. Walker, E. Hobbs, R. N. Rice, S. S. L'Hommedieu, Wm. Case, George Palmer, P. A. Hall, Henry C. Lord, A. G. Jaudon, Edwin Robinson, E. H. Gill, W. T. Joynes, J. B. Warring, S. L. Fremont, John L. Helm, John Ross, A. S. Crothers, E. Gest, Erastus Corning, L. M. Hubby, W. H. Clements, John T. Levis,

"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859 by J.T. Lloyd in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States ..."

"Drawn & engraved at Rae Smith's ... N.Y. from materials furnished to the 36th Congress, March 1859 by G.K. Warren, Lt. U.S. Top. Eng. for the passage of the Pacific Railroad bill."

Reference: LC U.S. railroad maps, 37

Includes portraits of 28 railroad presidents.

SUBJECTS
Railroads--United States--Maps.
United States.

RELATED NAMES
Smith, Rae.

MEDIUM
col. map 39 x 72 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3701.P3 1859 .L5 RR 37

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3701p rr000370 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000370

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