General map showing the countries explored & surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53 under the direction of John R. Bartlett, U.S. Commissioner.

Map shows the areas of North America explored and surveyed by the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission from 1850 to 1853 under the direction of John R. Bartlett, U.S. Commissioner. Includes historic notes. Scale [ca. 1:6,600,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
System: The Portal to Texas History

New and improved map of Louisiana.

Map shows railroads (existing, proposed, and under construction), distances from New Orleans along the Mississippi River, roads, parishes, township grid, marshes, canals, lakes, and bayous. Includes text notes and tables for population and "senatorial districts and representatives by parishes." Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:579,300].
Date: 1853
Creator: Bayley, G. W. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, cities, towns, and Mexican states. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. No scale noted.
Date: [1853..1863]
Creator: Blackie & Son
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colton's township map of the state of Iowa : compiled from the United States surveys & other authentic sources.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Iowa post roads, railroads, township grid, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes census figures by county for 1840 and 1850. Scale [ca. 1:887,040].
Date: 1853
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

Florida, 1853.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Florida counties, township grid, swamps, cities, towns, and military posts. Inset: "Plan of the Florida Keys." Scale [ca. 1:2,534,400].
Date: 1853
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

South Carolina.

Map shows counties, railroads, common roads, canals, swamps, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: "Plan of Charleston, vicinity & harbor." Scale [ca. 1:1,310,000] and [ca. 1:190,080].
Date: 1853
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

Virginia.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Virginia and West Virginia counties, railroads, roads, canals, swamps, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Insets: "Richmond, Henrico County, Manchester and Spring Hill, Chesterfield Co." and "Norfolk, Portsmouth and Gosport." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,840,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wisconsin.

Map shows township grid, counties, roads, railroads, lakes, cities and towns. Scale [ca. 1:1,690,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map No. 3, United States.

Map shows major towns, counties, canals, and railroads for New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Includes explanation, population statistics, and river lengths. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by statement. Scale [ca. 1:3,000,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Daniel Burgess & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map No. 7, United States.

Map shows major towns, counties, canals, and railroads in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Includes population statistics and river lengths. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Daniel Burgess & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map No. 8, United States.

Map shows major towns, counties, canals, and railroads in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri; shows Native American reservations in adjacent Kansas. Includes explanation, population statistics, and river lengths. Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Daniel Burgess & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map No. 10, United States.

Map shows major towns, geographical features, and areas of Native American habitation in California and the western territories of Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas. Includes explanation, population statistics, and river lengths. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:8,600,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Daniel Burgess & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of North America : designed to accompany Smith's Geography for schools.

Map shows political boundaries, major cities, population statistics, length of rivers, and distances by sea. Includes explanation and notes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:32,000,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Daniel Burgess & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Western Oregon sketch map of the Willamette Valley : with the chief towns & roads also the railroads now building.

Map shows cities, roads, and existing and proposed railroads in mid-nineteenth century northwestern Oregon. Includes table of distances and text [continued from verso] advertising prices for land in Oregon. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1853..1873]
Creator: Davidson, William
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of the United States, Mexico, and Central America: showing the limit of frontier stations]

Map shows the extent of military posts just west of the Mississippi River, the route of the Rifle Regiment [the Oregon Expedition] in 1849, military outposts and roads, ocean and river routes of transportation, and U.S. Boundaries with British possessions and with Mexico. Includes explanations and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1853..1854]
Creator: Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886
System: The Portal to Texas History

United States of North America (Eastern and Central).

Map shows mid-nineteenth century United States from the eastern coast to the Rocky Mountains. Geography, cities, towns, state borders, territory borders, locations of Native American tribes, and railway routes are indicated. Relief shown by hachures. Scale: [ca. 1:3,976 ,000].
Date: [1853..1863]
Creator: Ettling, Theodor, b. 1823
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of water lot property to be sold on Monday, Dec. 26th., 1853: at the Music Hall, Bush St. by the city of San Francisco

Map shows the water lot property to be sold on Monday, December 26, 1853 at the Music Hall, Bush St. by the city of San Francisco as approved by J.J. Gardner. Street names, lot dimensions and numbers are indicated. Due north is indicated in the upper right corner. Cadastral map. Scale not given.
Date: 1853
Creator: Gardiner, J. J. (James J.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls : from actual surveys by Samuel Geil.

Map shows roads, railroads, landowners, tract numbers, marshes, vegetation, towns, and settlements around mid-nineteenth century Niagara Falls. Includes historic notes and illustrations. Insets: "View from Point View, American side," "Horse Show Fall," "Rail road suspension bridge at Belle Vue," "Observatories Lundys Lane," "View from the Ferry, American side," [untitled], "Oliver T. Mackleins Chippewa Foundry, Stove Work, etc.," "Brock's monument," "View from Hogs Back," "The Brock Monument," "Lewiston suspension bridge," "View of the whirlpool from the Canada side," and "View from Victoria Point, Canada side." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1853
Creator: Geil, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls : from actual surveys by Samuel Geil.

Map shows roads, railroads, landowners, tract numbers, marshes, vegetation, towns, and settlements. Insets: "View from Point View, American side," "Horse Show Fall," "Rail road suspension bridge at Belle Vue," Observatories Lundys Lane," "View from the Ferry, American side," [untitled], "Oliver T. Mackleins Chippewa Foundry, Stove Work, etc.," "Brock's monument," "View from Hogs Back," "The Brock Monument," "Lewiston suspension bridge," "View of the whirlpool from the Canada side," and "View from Victoria Point, Canada side." Includes historic notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1853
Creator: Geil, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History

North America, Sheet XIII : Parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida.

Map shows geography, cities, towns and state borders in parts of mid-nineteenth century Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Scale not given.
Date: 1853
Creator: J. & C. Walker (Firm)
System: The Portal to Texas History

A new map of the state of Ohio.

Map mid-nineteenth century Ohio roads, existing railroads, proposed railroads, canals, counties, cities, towns and notable physical features. Includes notes and explanation. Insets: "Profile of the Miami Canal" and "Profile of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami Canal." Scale [ca. 1:1,352,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
System: The Portal to Texas History

United States.

Map shows state boundaries, canals, routes of transportation, major cities and towns, "Western Territory," "Missouri Territory," Texas bordering along the "Rio Grande del Norte" but without its panhandle, "New Mexico or Santa Fe" with the Rio Grande del Norte as its western border, and Nebraska with the Missouri Territory to its west and all of Minnesota and Iowa to its east. Includes emblem, shield, and illustrations: "Buffalo Hunt," "Penn's Treaty with the Indians," and "Washington's Monument." In center of left map border: [Portrait of George] "Washington." In center of right map border: [Portrait of Benjamin] "Franklin." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:12,700,000].
Date: [1853..1873]
Creator: Rapkin, J.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Minnesota territory.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Minnesota counties, roads, settlements, Native American villages, military posts, and the Dakota reservation. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,410,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: Sarony & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the West Indies with Central America : showing all the routes to California with a table of distances.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, cities, territories, and political borders in the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes "Table of Distances." Relief shown by hachures. No scale noted.
Date: 1853
Creator: Thayer, Bridgman & Fanning
System: The Portal to Texas History