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Image ID: 434755
Map of the route of the proposed New York & Erie Railroad, as surveyed in 1834 / reduced from the plans as returned by B...
([1834?])
Image Details
Image Title
:
Map of the route of the proposed New York & Erie Railroad, as surveyed in 1834 / reduced from the plans as returned by Benjn. Wright, Civil Engineer ; D. R. Harrison, sc.
Creator
:
Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842 -- Engineer
Additional Name(s)
:
Harrison, D. R. -- Engraver
New York and Erie Railroad Company -- Associated name
Cammeyer & Clark -- Publisher
Published Date
:
[1834?]
Item Physical Description
: 1 map : hand col. ; 55 x 113 cm.
Notes
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Description derived from published bibliography.
Note 2.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 3.)
Shows New York state from Westchester County to Lake Erie, and part of northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The line was chartered on April 24, 1832. See entry 404 in LC Railroad maps.
Standard Reference
: LC Railroad maps, 481
Source
:
Maps of New York City and State / Whole
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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