Union Pacific Railway. Eastern Division and connections. Wyandotte, Kans. [cartographic material] / Juls. Huwata Lith., 313 Chestnut St, St. Louis, Mo.

Union Pacific Railway. Eastern Division and connections. Wyandotte, Kans. [cartographic material] / Juls. Huwata Lith., 313 Chestnut St, St. Louis, Mo.

Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Maps.

Railroads -- West (U.S.) -- Maps.

Railroads -- Middle West -- Maps.

Railroads -- Equipment and supplies.

Railroad map of the central and western U.S. showing rail lines, states, towns, forts, and mountains. Also shows part of Mexico and the Gulf of California. The Union Pacific Railway, later the Kansas Pacific Railway, was chartered in July 1863 as part of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The railway was to create a southerly branch of the transcontinental railroad.

Map bordered by 20 advertisements for Northeast businesses related to railroads, including engineering, surveyors, telegraph, mathematical, and boiler instruments; railway tires, engines, switches, joints and varnishes; as well as a time detector and wood working machinery. Philadelphia businesses include Baldwin Locomotive Works; W.Y. McAllister; N. & A. Middleton; James W. Queen & Co; W.H. Wharton, Jr.; and Verree & Mitchell. Four advertisements include vignettes.

Huwata, Julius, lithographer.

Library Company of Philadelphia

St. Louis, Mo., 1868.

1 map : lithograph, tinted with one stone; 60 x 95 cm. (24 x 37.75 in.)

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