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Description

Rare large format map of the Philadelphia & Erie Rail Road, lithographed by Thomas Sinclair in Philadelphia.

Detailed map of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent states indicating major drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, county boundaries in Pennsylvania, and major cities. Canals and railroads are annotated in colors. In the west, the routes of two proposed transcontinental railroads are shown.

The Philadelphia & Erie Railroad was chartered under the name Sunbury and Erie Railroad on April 3, 1837. The name was changed in 1861. As with the Library of Congress copy, the original title which read "... Sunbury & Erie ..." has been altered by a printed label which reads ". . . Philada. & Erie ..."

OCLC locates 2 copies--Library of Congress and Penn State University. OCLC and Stephensonh do not list any surviving examples of the map without the pastedown over the original title.

Condition Description
Dissected in 3 sections and laid on linen. New title pasted down over the old title, changing the name of the Railroad.
Reference
Stephenson 524.