Boston, Massachusetts -- Railroads, 1850 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Rail-road crossings and termini in the vicinity of Boston, E.S. Chesbrough, commissioner ; reduced from a drawing by Chas. Perkins. It was published in 1850. Scale [1:7,200]. Covers Boston proper (Shawmut Peninsula and Boston Neck) and portions of Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as railroads, railroad depots, railroad crossings, road, drainage, some public buildings, bridges, wharves, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. The accompanying profiles of railroad crossings are published separately under the title: Sections of railroad crossings in the vicinity of Boston. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Boston and vicinity, Massachusetts, railroads, 1865 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Rail road map : showing the street rail road routes in and leading from Boston, with the terminus of each road in suburban cities or towns, prepared by J.G. Chase, civil engineer. It was published by J.H. Bufford in 1865. Scale [1:42,240]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as street railroads, steam railroads, selected roads, drainage, town boundaries and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Referee's memorandum and award in the matter of: Whether further wage increases are justified ... in relation to employees represented by 15 cooperating railway labor organizations, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and railroads as represented by Eastern, Western and Southeastern carriers; Conference committees, before Paul N. Guthrie.

Mode of access: Internet.

Railroad reorganization : Hearing before the Special subcommittee on bankruptcy and reorganization of the Committee on the judiciary, House of representatives, seventy-sixth Congress, first session on S. 1869; an act to protect interstate commerce from the dangers of unsound financial structures and to establish improved procedures and standards for financial rehabilitation of railroads engaged in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

Serial no. 11.

The Pacific railroads : suggestions submitted to the Hon. Charles Devens, attorney-general of the United States, on the resolutions of the Senate and House of Representatives in respect to the operation of the Union Pacific Railroad and branches : on behalf of said railroad company /

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of Charles F. Choate, esq., in behalf of the Northern (N.H.) railroad, against the consolidation of the Boston & Lowell and Fitchburg railroads, before the railway committee of the Massachusetts legislature, February 26, 1873.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Emergency board to the President, appointed September 27, 1938 under Section 10 of the Railway labor act, in re Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway and other class 1 railroads, common carriers engaged in interstate commerce, and certain of their employees represented by committee of eighteen cooperating labor organizations and the Brotherhood of railroad trainmen.

Dated: October 29, 1938.

Correspondence concerning a decision in the suit between the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads /

With: Acts of Congress relating to the Union Pacific railroad and branches. Washington : J.L. Pearson, Printer, 1877. Bound together subsequent to publication.

The Pacific railroads : the rights of the people ignored.

"March 31, 1874"--Page 8.

Secretary of the Interior on the Pacific railroads; extract from annual report. Second session, forty-fifth Congress, December 3, 1877.

With: Acts of Congress relating to the Union Pacific railroad and branches. Washington : J.L. Pearson, Printer, 1877. Bound together subsequent to publication.

The railroads of Mexico,

Map mounted on inside of back cover.

Constitutional and statutory provisions of the state of Oregon relating to railroads, common carriers by rail and public utilities /

Running title: Railroad and public utility laws of Oregon.

Report of the sub-committee on steam railroads : to the Citizens' Representative Committee of One Hundred, District of Columbia, 1887.

Signed: C.B. Church, chairman.

Free railroads : review of the N.J. Railroad Co.'s pamphlets, on a system of free railroads.

"List of local railroads chartered by the state of New Jersey": p. 15-17.

Argument of Chauncey M. Depew, general councel New York Central & Hudson Company, before Assembly Committee on Railroads, Legislature state of New York : in opposition to the bills providing for the creation of a board of railroad commissioners : March 16, 1881.

Cover title.