File:Haasis & Lubrecht American Union Railroad Map 1871 UTA.jpg
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English: The American Union Railroad Map of the United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, and Central America |
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DescriptionHaasis & Lubrecht American Union Railroad Map 1871 UTA.jpg |
English: By 1871, when the New York publishers Haasis & Lubrecht produced this large, bold, and colorful folding map, the first transcontinental railroad was already in operation, having been completed just two years earlier. (The Central Pacific Railroad, building east from Sacramento, and the Union Pacific, building west from Omaha, Nebraska, met at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869). Oddly, only the Central Pacific is labeled on the map, and there is no key or list of railroads; nevertheless, many of the first transcontinental railroad's actual stops are depicted along the solid line. The line of the Kansas Pacific Railway, running west from Kansas City is shown as completed to Denver, having arrived there in August 1870 where it linked up with the recently completed Denver Pacific Railway that linked the whole line with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, Wyoming. A number of proposed railroads also appear on the map, shown by reticulated lines. These include the important Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific, to mention only a couple.
The Haasis & Lubrecht railroad map, issued in 1870, 1871, and 1872 editions, had a number of interesting features intended to attract purchasers. The stylish cartouche employs an exuberant tri-colored font for the title mixed with other fonts reminiscent of the attention-drawing broadsides advertising circuses, musical and theater performances in the Victorian or "Gilded Age" of boosterism. The image of an American-type 2-4-0 wood-burning locomotive arriving at, or departing from, an eastern, northern, or midwestern city or town, the vignettes of sail- and steamships, and the large landscape panorama at the top of the map adds to the map's attraction for buyers. Arguably, perhaps more practical is the inclusion at the lower left of the "Time and Distance Table between Washington and the Principal Places in North and Central America". This highlights a problem that confronted the railroads over vast distances. To run efficiently, the railroads had to establish a better control of time and soon proposed the system of "time zones" employed today. Finally, the pictorial panorama with the railroad running through it at the top of the map conveys a sense of the expanse of the nation and the optimistic sense that the new technology of the railroad or "machine in the garden" would succeed in uniting the two coasts and the country's differences after the terrible Civil War. |
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Source | UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Haasis & Lubrecht |
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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Map location | United States of America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of publication | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Haasis & Lubrecht |
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739 |
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height: 95 cm (37.4 in); width: 129 cm (50.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,95U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,129U174728 |
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chromolithograph on paper medium QS:P186,Q1121337;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259 |
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artwork-references | Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 2, p. 241 |
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