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Arkansas.

Description: Map shows Arkansas township grid, existing towns, swampland, and Indian boundaries during the mid-nineteenth century. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Arkansas. Land Survey Division.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Township map of Kansas.

Description: Map shows counties, railroads, military forts, roads, some settlements, township grid, and parts of the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe and Westport Trail, Santa Fe and California Trail. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:760,320].
Date: 1856
Creator: Propper, Geo. N.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Appletons' railway map of the southern states.

Description: Map shows existing and proposed railroad routes for the southeastern United States, including northern Florida, eastern Texas, and eastern "Indian Territory." Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1856..1866]
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The American Central Rail Way.

Description: Map shows the mid-nineteenth century American Central rail lines stretching from the middle of North American to Nebraska and Kansas territories. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Sylvester, J. W.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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