(United States) Map of the Country Between the Atlantic & Pacifi

Mapmaker: US Government

(United States) Map of the Country Between the Atlantic & Pacifi

c.1852
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  • ~Catalog 53~
  • (United States) Map of the Country Between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans...,

    With several images on this folding sheet we see the prospective railroads fanning from the east coast narrowing to a southern railroad route that potentially would connect across Texas and reach California through southern Arizona and New Mexico. Adjacent is a world map that shows what a convenient jumping off point California is to the Far East and islands of the Pacific. Below are elevation profiles reaching across the West. A concise visual argument to how the railroad would open.

    Condition is good. several images measuring 33 x 10.5 together, some hand color