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Western division of the United States : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography.

Description: Map shows counties, railroads, canals, cities, towns, and notable physical features for midwestern states on recto; areas of Native American habitation, counties, notable physical features, cities, and towns for Calfornia and Texas on verso; political boundaries, major cities, and notable physical features for South America on verso. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,000,000], [ca. 1:27,400,000], [ca. 1:6,300,000], and [ca. 1:6,100,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: D. Appleton and Company

Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the routes between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans by way of Tehuantepeque, Nicaragua & Panama.

Description: Map shows Central America geography and place names. Includes five "vertical sections of the proposed canals between Lake Nicaragua & the Pacific Ocean," and notes: "Sections of oceanic routes proposed and completed: Section no. 1, surveyed by Dr. Andres Oersted of Copenhagen for the government of Costa Rica 1848. Section no. 2, surveyed by Colonel Childs for the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Comp'y 1850-51. Section no. 3, proposed by ... the Emperor of the French. Section no. 4, sur… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Baily, John, fl. 1811-1850

Map of the United States and territories: showing the possessions and aggressions of the slave power.

Description: Map shows slave holding [dark shaded], non-slave holding [unshaded], and disputed territorries [grayed] parts of the United States during the decade before Civil War. The "Missouri Compromise" is indicated with a parallel line extending from the northern Arkansas border to California. No scale indicated. Political representation of slave holding, non-slave holding, and territories is also indicated. This broadside was printed and distributed in support of 1856 Republican Party presidential cand… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Bloss, William C.

Parker's sectional & geological map of Iowa : exhibiting her Iron, Lead, Copper,, Coal, and other geological resources and all rail roads completed, in progress, and projected.

Description: Map shows Iowa mineral resources, proposed and existing railroads, township grid, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes list of the railroads in Iowa and references. Inset: "Map showing the connections between the Iowa & Eastern Railroads"; list of railroads in Iowa. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:506,880].
Date: 1856
Creator: Parker, Nathan H. (Nathan Howe)

Map of Eastern Kansas.

Description: Map shows towns, trading posts, military posts, roads, trails, government reservations, mill and structure locations, and locations of Native American tribes and villages. Insets: "Ruins of Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas, destroyed May 21st 1856," "Constitution Hall, Topeka, Kansas," and "Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas." Includes explanations and illustrations of notable buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:500,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883

Central America.

Description: Map shows railroads, steamship routes and mileage, mineral resources, cities and towns, and provincial divisions within each country; separate entities of Guatemala, Verapaz, Belize, San Salvador; Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Veragua [Santiago], and Panama; the Caribbean Sea as far as Jamaica and the southern part of Cuba. Includes portrait of General Walker. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca.1: 3,900,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Morse & Gaston.

Mexico and Central America.

Description: Map shows Mexican state boundaries, political divisions for Central America, cities, and rivers. Inset: "Enlarged plan of the Isthmus of Panama." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,336,000] and [ca. 1:3,168,000].
Date: [1856..1876]
Creator: Hughes, William, 1817-1876

Map of America, 1856

Description: Map shows cities, physical features, political boundaries for North and South America, the West Indies, Pacific Islands, and New Zealand; "North boundary of the United States" between United States and Canada, border between Mexico and the United States appears to that prior to Gadsden Treaty. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Wyld, James, 1812-1887

Map of public surveys in California.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century California township grid, existing towns, lakes, marshlands, springs, and Native American villages. Includes "description of private grants finally confirmed," and explanation. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States Surveyor General.
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