Texas State Archives Map Collection
Colonists' and Emigrants' Route to Texas
| Date: | 1878 c. |
| Publisher: | Rand McNally and Company, c. 1878. Reprinted by Texas Department of Transportation, 1994.. |
| Cartographer: | -- None Listed -- |
| Scale: | none given |
| Size: | 35 cm x 57 cm |
| Type of Map: | railroad |
| Format: | black & white, engraved, lithographed, printed |
| Language: | English |
| AC Number: | 07671 |
| Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
Colonists' and Emigrants' Route to Texas Image:
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Description:
[Pub., cont.] ... All rights reserved. Courtesy Special Collections Division, the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
Reproduction of a pictorial map covering most of Texas, showing rivers, mountainous areas, cities, towns, roads, and railroads, focusing on major lines probably used by emigrants into the state, and two steamship lines coming into Galveston. Insets: [Railroad map of the eastern half of the United States]; Pictures of Reproductions of the International & Great Northern Railroad. There is a second sheet containing ads and schedules by the I.& G.N.R.R. promoting emigration into Texas via its Lone Star route.
Two sheets, each 35 cm x 57 cm
7/2/95
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