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Map Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

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Title

  • Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

Summary

  • Main map shows western states and includes relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and ranges, counties, railroads, and proposed railroads. General map, at top of sheet, covers the United States and shows the railroad network. First section, the Central Pacific linked California with Ogden, Utah, in 1869. The merging of the Central with the Southern Pacific was the inspiration of Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

Names

  • G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
  • Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

Created / Published

  • New York, 1875.

Headings

  • -  Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Maps
  • -  Railroads--Southwest, New--Maps
  • -  United States--Southwest, New

Notes

  • -  Scale 1:2,090,880 and ca. 1:8,000,000.
  • -  LC Railroad maps, 567
  • -  Description derived from published bibliography.
  • -  2 copies

Medium

  • col. map 2 maps on 1 sheet 76 x 60 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G4301.P3 1875 .G15

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98688810

Online Format

  • image

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G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections. New York, 1875. Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98688810/.

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G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co & Southern Pacific Railroad Company. (1875) Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections. New York. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98688810/.

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G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections. New York, 1875. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/98688810/>.