File:Rand, McNally and Co. Map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway 1880 UTA.jpg
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English: Map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The New Avenue of Travel and Transportation Between the United States and Mexico |
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DescriptionRand, McNally and Co. Map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway 1880 UTA.jpg |
English: This folding railroad promotional brochure map is a fine example of a late nineteenth-century American railway map by one of the most important American railway mapmakers and publishers still in business today: Rand, McNally and Company of Chicago. Established in 1858 as a printing company, by 1873 the firm was known for its railroad related work and had also opened a map department where they advertised "all kinds of Relief Plate Engraving [cerography or wax engraving]". The heavy lines with evenly spaced dots emphasize the main railroad lines, and each dot represents a "whistle-stop" or station where the train would let off and take on passengers and freight. This was, and still is, a characteristic feature of many railroad and subway maps which simplify, exaggerate, and distort distances, area, and direction in order to convey key information. Although the Houston and Texas Central Railway is the central focus of the map, it also delineates the railroad's integration with New York shipping and railroad magnate Charles W. Morgan's steamship lines, the Texas and New Orleans, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and other railroads.
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Source | UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Houston and Texas Central Railway Rand, McNally & Company |
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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United States of America Mexico |
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Place of publication | Chicago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Printed by |
Rand, McNally and Company (for the Houston and Texas Central Railway) |
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739 |
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height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 50 cm (19.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,50U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,50U174728 |
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Medium | color cerograph | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Modelski Railroad Maps of North America, pp. xvi-xx Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl. Waco Suspension Bridge. Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved on April 2, 2022. Buisseret, David; Richard Francaviglia, Gerald Saxon, and Jack W. Graves, Jr. (2009) Historic Texas From the Air, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 112−113 Baughman, James P. (1968) Charles Morgan and the Development of Southern Transportation, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press Francaviglia, Richard V. (1998) From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900, Austin: University of Texas Press, p. 128ff |
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This work was published before January 1, 1929 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or fewer since publication.
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