107 colored manuscript railroad maps, detailing the line of the Colorado Midland Railway between Park County and Pitkin and Garfield Counties. The highly detailed maps depict county ranges and townships, survey points and mileage markers, depots, canyons, bridges, sidings, trestles, tunnels, rivers, creeks, etc.; adjacent railroad lines and rights-of-way; hamlets, villages, settlements, ranches, farms, etc.; and plats of the towns of Buena Vista, Leadville, Glenwood Springs, and Aspen. Counties covered are Chaffee, Eagle, Garfield, Lake, Park, and Pitkin. Accompanied by an incomplete index (1 leaf) entitled "Valuation Section [?] Colo. Midland Ry" and two leaves of surveying notes.
Description:
Versos blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado--Maps and Garfield County (Colo.)--Maps
Subject (Name):
Colorado Midland Railway Company
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Maps and Railroads--Colorado--Maps
"Printed from an electrotype.", Copy 2: Sheets 7, 10-11, 15, 17-18, 20 and 21 only. Hand colored., For a detailed description of the maps, see: The first Ordnance Survey map : a history and cartobibliography of the one-inch Old Series of England and Wales / Roger Hellyer and Richard Oliver. London : The Charles Close Society, 2015., Some sheets issued as quarter sheets., Statement of responsibility and imprint based on sheet 1., and Topographic series of England and Wales with relief shown by hachures.
Publisher:
Published by Colonel Colby ...,
Subject (Geographic):
England--Maps, Great Britain--Surveys--Maps, Military topography--Great Britain, and Wales--Maps
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Published / Created:
1775?-1781?]
Call Number:
1983 Folio 25
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
A made-up collection of charts, plans and views, partly hand colored, from the Atlantic Neptune comprising [v. 1]: the charts of the South East Coast of Nova Scotia, with the title page of The charts of the coast and harbors of New England, 1781 bound in front (31 items, dated between 1777 and 1781). [v. 2]: Charts of the coast and harbours in the Gulph and river of St. Lawrence, 1780, including the charts of the coast of New England (36 items, dated between 1775 and 1781). [v. 3]: Charts of several harbours and divers parts of the coast of North America from New York south westwards to the Gulph of Mexico, 1780, including some 16 charts belonging to the New England part of the work (35 items, dated between 1776 and 1781). General title page wanting.
Description:
Includes indexes.
Publisher:
The Admiralty,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps and North America--Pictorial works