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Chicago water plan

Map shows Chicago street names, canals, and lake tunnels during the late nineteenth century. Scale [ca. 1:25,334].
Date: 1878
Creator: Shober & Carqueville
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A geographically correct county map of states traversed by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and its connections.

Map shows railroads for the South Central United States; counties, cities and towns for Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and portions of "Indian Territory," Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Alabama; railroad routes, major cities, and state boundaries for the Eastern United States. Includes advertisements in right and right lower panels of sheet. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1878
Creator: St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Coolers (open access)

Improvement in Car-Journal Coolers

Patent for improvement of car-journal coolers on railroad-vehicles, with illustration.
Date: August 20, 1878
Creator: Morris, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the great Air Line route : Ohio & Mississippi Railway and connections.

Map shows major cities and towns, military posts, state and territory boundaries, and railroad companies and existing and proposed rail routes across eastern half of the continental United States; Dakota and Indian Territories. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1878
Creator: Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company (1867-1893)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History