Map of routes for a Pacific railroad, compiled to accompany the report of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, sec. of war. G. K. Warren, lt. top. engrs. 1855.

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Map of routes for a Pacific railroad, compiled to accompany the report of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, sec. of war. G. K. Warren, lt. top. engrs. 1855.

Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 1830-1882.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Rev. Jany. 1857.
N[ew] Y[ork] Lith. of J. Bien [1857]

SUMMARY
Outline sketch map of the United States west of the Mississippi River designed to show the relationship of the proposed railroad routes. First edition of the map appears in U.S. War Department, Report of the Secretary...Communicating the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations (Washington, 1855). [From published bibliography]

NOTES
Scale 1:6,000,000.

Relief shown by hachures.

Hand colored.

"This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other: the topography represents only those great divides which form summits on the profiles of the routes. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state..." (see RR 174 for completed large map)

Reference: LC Railroad maps, 173

LC copy annotated in pink to show boundaries and names of states and territories.

LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Millard Fillmore May 15, 1861, No. 109.

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

RELATED TITLES
[Fillmore map collection] ; no. 109
Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House) ; 33rd Congress, 1st session, no. 129.

MEDIUM
col. map 52 x 59 cm. fold. to 22 x 12 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3701.P3 1857 .W31 Fil 109

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

DIGITAL ID
g3701p rr001730 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr001730

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