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A survey of the roads of the United States of America
Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. On original paper cover in manuscript ink: "Collis's plan of the roads throughout the United States." Accompanied by broadside: Proposals for publishing A survey of the roads of the United States of America / by Christopher Colles (conserved and bound…
Contributor:
Colles, Christopher - Tiebout, Cornelius
Map of the Mississippi River : from Cairo to Donaldsonville
"Showing bank erosion as derived from special survey made November 20, 1891 to March 20, 1892. Showing also the controlling line of levees in 1892." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Contributor:
United States. Mississippi River Commission
[Book of running charts of the Yukon and Stewart rivers, 1913-1950
"Presented here is a book of 117 hand-drawn maps of the Yukon and Stewart Rivers in Canada and Alaska. The maps were made between 1913 and 1950 by Ralph W. Newcomb, who worked for many years as a pilot guide on these rivers. Originally part of a loose-leaf notebook, the maps show hazards on the rivers, including swift currents, eddies, mud bars, and sharp…
Contributor:
Wallace, George H. - Newcomb, Ralph W.
Map of the world oceans, October 2012
Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "October 2012." "803518AI (G03545) 10-12." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Contributor:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Map of the world oceans, January 2015
Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "803745AI (G03545) 1-15." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Contributor:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Transport links North America to Asia
"Map no. 840." "Confidential." Shows period when ports are ice free. Typed note pasted on: For Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes from Ruth Gruber. Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated by colored tapes. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 700/1; 710/2
Contributor:
United States. Board of Economic Warfare - United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch. Geography Division - Ickes, Harold L. (Harold Leclair)
The route of the Alaska excursion steamers
"In the years after the Alaska Purchase in 1867, Americans had only a dim appreciation of the value and splendors of their new northern territory. This attitude changed slowly, and it was not fully overcome until the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 radically altered perceptions of the region's value. Even earlier, however, certain developments started to shift American views of Alaska. In particular, John…
New map of Canada : New Brunswick, Nova Scotia &c
Shows railways, proposed railways, and canals. Signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, Bought at Montreal Augt. 19, 1863, $1.95. Annotated in red, sectioned into 33 and mounted on cloth. Includes insets of: Environs of Montreal and Newfoundland. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
A map of the United States of North America
Shows few roads and has "Tennassee Government" on sheet 3. Relief shown by hachures. In lower margins: London: Published as the act directs by A. Arrowsmith, Charles Street, Soho Square, Jan. 1st, 1796. This is Tooley's 1796 (a) issue of the map. Includes notes and illustration of and text about Niagara Falls. LC copy assembled into two sheets, sectioned in six and mounted on…
Contributor:
Arrowsmith, Aaron
Date:1802
Map
A map of the United States exhibiting post roads & distances : the first sheet comprehending the nine northern states, with parts of Virginia and the territory north of Ohio
Title at bottom of map: Map of the United States exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers
Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Handwritten on slip of paper affixed to map verso: "No. 154, title page of Map of United States deposited by Abm. Bradley junr. as author, Sept. 26th 1796." "W. Barker, sculp. Philada." Sheets joined to form 1 map. Includes mail transportation chart and text. Fold-lined, some brown coloration along folds. Some annotations in pencil. LC copy imperfect:…
Contributor:
Bradley, Abraham - Harrison, William - Barker, W. (William)
Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys by Amos Lay, geographer & map publisher, New York
Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and proposed lines. Railroads are shown in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and a very small part of North Carolina from Rock Island to the northern boundary.
MapA survey of the roads of the United States of America Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. On original paper cover in manuscript ink: "Collis's plan of the roads throughout the United States." Accompanied by broadside: Proposals for publishing A survey of the roads of the United States of America / by Christopher Colles (conserved and bound…
MapTidal current charts, Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound Title from cover. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 10990 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapMap of the Mississippi River : from Cairo to Donaldsonville "Showing bank erosion as derived from special survey made November 20, 1891 to March 20, 1892. Showing also the controlling line of levees in 1892." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapReal Estate Map Publishing Co's atlas of township of Proviso, Cook County, Illinois : including Riverside : being sections 1 to 36 inclusive, township 39 north, range 12 east of the 3rd …
Map[Book of running charts of the Yukon and Stewart rivers, 1913-1950 "Presented here is a book of 117 hand-drawn maps of the Yukon and Stewart Rivers in Canada and Alaska. The maps were made between 1913 and 1950 by Ralph W. Newcomb, who worked for many years as a pilot guide on these rivers. Originally part of a loose-leaf notebook, the maps show hazards on the rivers, including swift currents, eddies, mud bars, and sharp…
MapThe West-India pilot. Containing piloting directions for Port Royal Harbour in Jamaica, in and out through the kays ... The whole illustrated with a number of copper plates, finished by the best … "Captain Joseph Smith Speer was an English mariner who spent many years in Central America and the Caribbean. He created detailed maps and guides based on his personal experiences. In 1766, he published The West-India Pilot, containing 13 maps and detailed navigational instructions for passage between Caribbean ports. An expanded edition with 26 maps appeared in 1771. Speer's instructions to mariners were practical and…
MapRailway time tables, and assistant to railway travelling Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. unk82092567 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2021590136 replaced (ga37 2021-04-26)
MapCarte de la mer du sud et des costes d'Amerque et d'Asie, situées sur cette mer ; Carte de la mer du nord et des costes d'Amerique, d'Europe et d'Afrique, situées sur … One map with separately titled sections. "Avec privilege du roy 1713." Shows California as an island and sea routes of European explorers. Map printed on 10 sheets. Includes illustrations, including nine portraits of explorers, notes, and extensive text separately printed and attached along the bottom margin of the map. Ancillary maps: Acapulco -- Baldive -- La Conception -- La Havane -- Isles Mariannes --…
MapMap of the world oceans, October 2012 Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "October 2012." "803518AI (G03545) 10-12." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapMap of the world oceans, January 2015 Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by shading. Shows shipping lanes and major ports. "803745AI (G03545) 1-15." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapRomania--TAROM air routes to non-communist countries : March 1977 : [the World] "503284 3-77 (543247)." LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, annotated in black marker ink, fold-lined, taped at edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapMap showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe Relief shown by hachures. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions Control no. 20-83
MapMap showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe Relief shown by hachures. Includes distance list. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 20-83
MapTelegraph chart, America and Europe Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
MapTransport links North America to Asia "Map no. 840." "Confidential." Shows period when ports are ice free. Typed note pasted on: For Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes from Ruth Gruber. Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated by colored tapes. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 700/1; 710/2
MapGeneral railway map engraved expressly for the Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Porto[sic] Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba : comprising maps of the United … Relief shown by hachures. Includes nine inset maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapMap of North America from the latest authorities, showing the proposed railroad routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by J.H. Colton in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York." Includes list of "Geographical statistic's," distance list, and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 20-83
MapDiagram of the United States of America, Mexico, the West India Islands and Isthmus of Darien; by W. T. Steiger, General Land Office Outline map of the United States and Middle America showing proposed routes of the Pacific Rail Road and its branches in connection with the various systems of existing and unfinished rail roads from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
MapCarta reducida que comprehende las costas septemtrionales de la California contenidas é́ntre él gro 36. y él 61. de latitud Norte descubiertas én los años de 1775 y 1779 én las expediciones … Shows names of geographic features along the Pacific coast from Monterey Bay, California to Prince William Sound, Alaska. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink on paper, mounted on cloth. Losses along right border. Label from previous owner pasted on verso. Title misspelled and should read: Carta reducida que comprehende las Costas Septentrionales de la California... Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a…
MapThe route of the Alaska excursion steamers "In the years after the Alaska Purchase in 1867, Americans had only a dim appreciation of the value and splendors of their new northern territory. This attitude changed slowly, and it was not fully overcome until the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 radically altered perceptions of the region's value. Even earlier, however, certain developments started to shift American views of Alaska. In particular, John…
MapNew map of Canada : New Brunswick, Nova Scotia &c Shows railways, proposed railways, and canals. Signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, Bought at Montreal Augt. 19, 1863, $1.95. Annotated in red, sectioned into 33 and mounted on cloth. Includes insets of: Environs of Montreal and Newfoundland. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapA map of the United States of North America Shows few roads and has "Tennassee Government" on sheet 3. Relief shown by hachures. In lower margins: London: Published as the act directs by A. Arrowsmith, Charles Street, Soho Square, Jan. 1st, 1796. This is Tooley's 1796 (a) issue of the map. Includes notes and illustration of and text about Niagara Falls. LC copy assembled into two sheets, sectioned in six and mounted on…
MapA map of the United States exhibiting post roads & distances : the first sheet comprehending the nine northern states, with parts of Virginia and the territory north of Ohio
MapMap of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys by Amos Lay, geographer & map publisher, New York Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and proposed lines. Railroads are shown in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and a very small part of North Carolina from Rock Island to the northern boundary.
MapUnited States The map covers the eastern half of the United States. Shows roads, canals, and railroads. Indicates state boundaries and many cities.