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California.
Map shows late nineteenth century California counties, railroads, cities and towns, and notable geographic features. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,600,000] and [ca. 1:2,300,000].
Date:
[1874..1889]
Creator:
Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Maps of California, Nevada, and Utah]
Map shows early twentieth century California railroads, cities and towns, counties, electric lines, and Native American reservations in Nevada. Includes indexes and statistics. Insets: "San Francisco and vicinity." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,724,280], [ca. 1:2,661,120], and [ca. 1:2,027,520].
Date:
1920
Creator:
Rand McNally and Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gray's new map of California.
Map shows township grid, railroads, counties, military posts, and notable physical features in California. Insets shows street names, parks, wards, public areas, military facilities, and docks in San Francisco; Yosemite Valley trails; overview of San Francisco Bay railroads. Verso of map shows Nevada township grid, counties, Native American reservations, railroads, notable physical features, cities, and towns. Includes text and authorities. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,200,000].
Date:
1884
Creator:
Gray, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal map of Gold Hill Mines workings: Comstock Lode.
Map shows late nineteenth century named shafts, tunnels, structures, and mining company claims in the Comstock Lode region. Includes measured distances and depths. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,200].
Date:
[1868..1888]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the route of the Southern Continental R.R. with connections from Kansas City, Mo., Ft. Smith, Ark. and Shreveport, La.: giving a general view of recent surveys of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co. across the continent.
Map shows cities, towns, forts, military reservations, Native American reservations, wagon roads, trails, and the railroad network indicating completed, proposed, and connecting lines; expeditionary routes by military explorer's name and date; mining activity and mineral resources. Includes table of distances and explanations. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:3,801,600].
Date:
1868
Creator:
Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909
System:
The Portal to Texas History
California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Washington.
Map shows county lines, cities and towns, military posts, existing and proposed railroad routes, areas of Native American habitation, and mineral resources; territories of Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,680,000] and [ca. 1:2,450,000].
Date:
[1869..1883]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the gold region[s] of California: showing the routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn, &c.
Map shows historic routes of exploration, suggested routes of travel to California's Gold region, Oregon, areas of Native American habitation, and major cities. Includes text in lower panel: "Important directions to persons emigrating to California" and "Description of California, or the new gold region." Relief shown by hachures. Depths by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:6,000,000] and [ca. 1:40,000,000].
Date:
1849
Creator:
Ensigns & Thayer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Johnson's California, territories of New Mexico and Utah.
Map shows Nevada carved out of Utah [territory], New Mexico [territory] north and parallel to Arizona [territory]; counties, areas of Native American habitation by tribe, major cities and towns, trails and roads, mineral resources, and mountain passes; boundaries between United States and Mexico as established by the Compromise of 1850 and the Gadsden Treaty. Includes notes and routes and dates of exploration. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date:
[1854..1864]
Creator:
Johnson & Browning
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to Puget Sound - electrified.
Map shows railroads, state boundaries, cities and towns along railroad routes, and national parks. Includes mileage statistics for company's electrical lines and text in lower margin. Insets: [Continuation of map from chicago to Westport, Indiana] and "Profile of main line St. Paul-Minneapolis to Seattle-Tacoma." Relief shown by profile with spot heights. Scale not given.
Date:
1922
Creator:
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of the States of California and Nevada : exhibiting the rivers, lakes, bays, and islands, with the principal towns, roads, railroads, and transit routes to the silver mining districts : also meridian, standard, range and township lines as established : to which is added the county boundaries and United States land districts.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century California and Nevada mines, mining districts, mineral resources, township grid, counties, roads, railroads, marshland, cities, towns, and military posts. Includes explanation, table of distances, and key to "United States land districts." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640].
Date:
1866
Creator:
Ransom, Leander, 1800-1874
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Topographical railroad & county map of the states of California and Nevada.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century California and Nevada counties, cities, towns, roads, existing and proposed railroads, Native American reservations, mining activity, and notable physical features; street names, wards, wharves, and select buildings in San Francisco; extent of railroad expansion. Includes "Distance between San Francisco and other Pacific ports" and "Difference of time between S. Francisco and other important cities. Insets: "Map of the City of San Francisco, California" and "Map of the Great National Pacific Railroads." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,330,560].
Date:
1868
Creator:
Nell, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe mining claims in Storey & Lyon Counties, Nevada.
Map shows mining claims, railroads, roads, mine shaft locations, mills, tunnels, township grid numbers, graveyards, and toll roads. Includes "List of mineral claims shown upon Parkinson's map of the Comstock Lode" on accompanying pages. Insets: [Continuation of main map to show "Flowery Dist." in section 23] and "Longitudinal section of the Comstock Lode." Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, by profile, and pictorially. Scale [1:12,000].
Date:
1875
Creator:
Parkinson, T. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal Map Virginia Mine Workings, Comstock Lode.
Map shows late nineteenth century configuration of mine shafts with lengths, degree of slope, mining companies names, and some mineral content of a portion of the Comstock Load. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,200].
Date:
1872
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
W. Rose's revised chart of the Comstock Mines and Sutro Tunnel, State of Nevada.
Map shows late nineteenth century mining claims in Storey and Lyon counties in Nevada. Details include the location of mineral veins, roads, flumes, railroad lines, and the Sutro Tunnel; towns or settlements of Silver City, American Flat, Gold Hill Town, Virginia City, and Flowery Ridge; buildings, structures, roads, and mountain peaks in views. Includes two birdseye views and notes. Insets: [View of the area above] "Sutro Tunnel," and [View of] "The Mouth of Sutro Tunnel." Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:14,400].
Date:
1878
Creator:
Rose, W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the Washoe District showing mining claims : Comstock mining and miners Plate III.
Map shows mining claims by name, mine and shaft locations, flumes, roads, railroads, towns, businesses, ranches, and structures. Includes "explanation of lines." Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Vertical contours at 50 feet intervals. Scale [1:18,000].
Date:
1881
Creator:
Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand),1847-1919
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Geologic map, no. 2 : Rio Colorado of the West.
Map shows routes of exploration, area of Native American habitation, settlements, geographical features across the territory of New Mexico; camps and astronomical stations. Includes geological key. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Scale [1:760,320].
Date:
1858
Creator:
Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the states of California and Nevada.
Map shows late nineteenth century California and Nevada railroads, roads, mines and mineral resources, military posts, township grid, land districts, counties, major cities, towns, and Native American reservations. Inset: [Elevation above the sea of some of the principal mountains in California and Nevada]. Includes legend and keys to judicial and land districts. Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and profile diagram. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date:
1883
Creator:
Gibbes, Charles Drayton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map showing detailed topography of the country traversed by the reconnaissance expedition through southern & southeastern Nevada : in charge of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, U.S. Engineers, assisted by Lieut. O.W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. ; P.W. Hamel, chief topographer and draughtsman, 1869.
Map shows mining districts, camps, astronomical stations, railroads, wagon roads, trails, springs, settlements, counties, and watershed. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:760,320].
Date:
1870
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of public surveys in Nevada Territory: To accompany report of Surveyor Genl. 1862.
Map shows township grid and "Lake Bigler" in western-most portion of Nevada Territory; roads, settlements, springs, buildings, ranches, mining activity, and mineral resources along western and southwestern border areas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:253,440].
Date:
1862
Creator:
Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Section along the line of the Sutro Tunnel.
Map shows depths of shafts and ravines along the length of the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada from its beginning to the west wall. Relief shown by profile and spot heights. Scale [1:7,200].
Date:
1871
Creator:
Parkinson, T. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sketch of mining timbers in use at the Gould and Curry Mine, Virginia, Nev. for particulars see accompanying specifications.
Map shows one or more views for each of six figures demonstrating the construction of the support beams for mine shafts and tunnels. Scale [1:16].
Date:
[1860..1880]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of the Oregon Trail and route to the California Gold Rush along the Humboldt River].
Map shows overland routes from St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri to the West, one crossing through California gold country and ending in Sacramento, California, and the other continuing on into Oregon; areas of Native American habitation, major cities and towns, and landmarks. Inset: "United States West of Mississippi River showing political divisions in 1849." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date:
1893
Creator:
Johnston, Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land classification map of parts of eastern Cal. and western Nev.: Atlas sheets 47(B) & 47(D)
Map shows towns, railroads, roads, rivers, lakes, and mud flats; potential agricultural, timber, and grazing lands; mining activity. Includes text notes and key to land use potential. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ 1:253,440].
Date:
1879
Creator:
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cross section of Sutro Tunnel, Plate 3.
Map shows interior of Sutro Tunnel in Nevada with profiles of the air pipe, car, rails, and drains. Preliminary items are shown in blue. Scale [1:30].
Date:
[1860..1878]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History