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Map of the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, the "Strip", 1957
Date
1957
Description
35 x 50 cm., folded to 22 x 10 cm. 1958 edition. Copyright held by Robert E. Barringer. Panel title: Welcome map, greater Las Vegas area and scenic routes to and from there. "The Raele McCoy Co." Map is irregularly shaped. Index on verso. Includes advertisements for Las Vegas businesses and notes. Birdseye-view map The Las Vegas area : wonderland of the West : on the Old Spanish Trail; advertisements and helpful information on Las Vegas on verso. "1958 edition." Original publisher: Redwood Publishing Co..
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Map showing the different routes travelled over by the detachments of the Overland Command in the spring of 1855 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Bay of San Francisco, 1855
Date
1855
Description
57 x 47 cm. Indicates routes of Capt. Ingalls, Col. Steptoe, and Lt. Mowrey, and camping grounds. "Ackerman Lith. 319 Broadway, N.Y." Relief shown by hachures. In Wheat, "Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West", v. 4, p. 210. Library's copy 1 is poor quality and not in color. Original publisher unknown, Series: Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st session, 34th Congress.
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Map of Las Vegas showing areas owned by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, water pipes and other water utilities, circa 1942
Date
1938 to 1946
Archival Collection
Description
Map showing downtown Las Vegas and tracts to the west showing water supply lines, wells, springs, and settling basins. Various areas outlined in red and yellow. Scale [ca. 1:7,200] 1 in.=600 feet. Cadastral map. Blueline print. Areas owned by railroad outlined by hand in different colored markers. Library's copy includes hand-written calculations.
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Map of California, and territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, 1864
Date
1864
Description
'Johnson's California, also Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, published by A.J. Johnson, New York.' 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by A.J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York.' Atlas page numbers in upper margin: 67-68. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Shows natural features, locations of Indian tribes, proposed railroad routes, routes of explorers, trails, county boundaries and populated places. Hand colored. On verso: 'Historical and statistical view of the West India Islands or Columbian Archipelago' (p. 80) and 'Historical and statistical view of Mexico and Central America' (p. 79). Scale [ca. 1:3,484,800]. 1 in. to ca. 55 miles (W 124°--W 102°/N 42°--N 32°).
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Las Vegas street map and Lake Mead Recreation Area pictorial map, 1979
Date
1979
Description
'Covering Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Sunrise Manor, Winchester, Paradise and East Las Vegas from Craig Road on the north to Sunset Road on the south and Nellis Boulevard on the east to Jones Boulevard on the west' -- front panel. 'This tourist map has been published by CreaTours, Inc. in co-operation with the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce." 3rd ed. Scale [ca. 1:31,680. 1 in. to approx. 0.5 miles]. Includes indexes. Pictorial map of Lake Mead National Recreation Area on verso, by Cliff Segerblom. 'Lithographed by Creel Printing Company, Las Vegas, Nev.' Second edition, copyright 1977. 'Map not to scale due to artistic license.' Advertisements on map verso.
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Map of California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, circa 1867
Date
1865 to 1869
Description
39 x 56 cm. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by A.J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Atlas page numbers in upper margin: 67-68. Primer meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. On verso: History and statistical view of the West India islands or Columbian Archipelago and Historical and statistical view of Mexico and Central America. Shows proposed railroads, locations of Indian tribes, natural features, counties, mines, mail routes, trails and routes of exploring expeditions. Has decorative border. Southern part of Nevada was added to the state in 1867 and is part of Nevada on this map, but Lincoln County was established in 1867 and is not on this map. This map was still probably published in 1867 in spite of someone's having written "1864" in pencil in the lower right corner of the Library's copy. Original publisher: A.J. Johnson.
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Map of Utah territory representing the extent of the irrigable, timber and pasture lands, 1878
Date
1878
Description
90 x 71 cm. Relief shown by hachures. In bottom margin: "Julius Bien, Lith." "Note. This map has been constructed from atlas sheets of the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region with additional material taken from the maps of the U.S. Geographical Explorations and Surveys west of the 100th meridian, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, in charge ; the U.S. Geological Exploration of the 40th parallel, Clarence King, U.S. Geologist in charge ; and the U.S. Geologial and Geographical Survey of the Territories, F.V. Hayden, in charge." At head of title: Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region, J.W. Powell in charge. Original publisher unknown.
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