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Map of North America detailing the proposed railroad routes across the United States and routes to Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, and Jamaica. A table of geographical statistics and a table of distances, as well as an illustration of Pyramid Lake in California, are included. This map is provided through a co-operative project between the Lecompton Historical Society and the Kansas Historical Society. Partial funding was provided by the Ross and Margaret Wulfkuhle Charitable Trust and the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.
Creator: J. H. Colton & Co.
Date: 1854
Item Number: 305789
Call Number: Z41
Holding Institution: Lecompton Historical Society
Business and Industry - Railroad
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Lecompton Historical Society
Collections - Map
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Places - International - Canada
Places - International - Cuba
Places - International - Greenland
Places - International - Guatemala
Places - International - Haiti
Places - International - Jamaica
Places - International - Mexico
Places - International - Puerto Rico
Places - Other States - Alaska
Places - Other States - California
Places - Other States - Missouri - Jackson County - Independence
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920 - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Transportation - Railroads
Type of Material - Maps
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