![Item #8751 Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska. 50,000 Acres of Land For Sale…[recto] Map of...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8751_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728944892)
An apparently unrecorded broadsheet advertising the sale of “good lands on Most Favorable Terms” in Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska, with a map showing the available plots. Text on the recto of the broadsheet describes Saline County’s “natural physical features,” “climate and rainfall as factors in crop-growing,” “population and material.....
An entertaining pictorial map of the Monterey Peninsula replete with playful illustrations highlighting the area’s numerous tourist attractions. Created for the Southern California Automobile Club’s Westways Magazine, this map serves as a tourist guide to Monterey Peninsula, spanning from Lover’s Point and Punta de Los Pinos in the north to.....
An appealing Klondike Gold Rush-era map of Alaska identifying known gold-bearing areas and routes to gold fields, accompanied by text on Alaska’s geography, geology, gold deposits, and more. Depicting Alaska, the Klondike District, and the westernmost portion of the Northwest Territory, this map spans from Port Simpson in the east.....
A striking and extensively detailed map of Yellowstone National Park, in a Northern pacific Railway brochure promoting travel to both Yellowstone and Alaska. This map depicts the park and its surrounding areas, with relief represented pictorially. At the top of the map, the Northern Pacific R.R. runs parallel to the.....
![Item #9455 Map of the Territory of Utah[;] Great Salt Lake Valley[;] Plat of Salt Lake City Utah....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9455_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1746963520)
A composite map of Utah Territory comprising a hand-colored plat of Salt Lake City, maps of the Territory of Utah and the Great Salt Lake Valley, and a portrait of Brigham Young, published soon after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. This is one of two editions of.....
A promotional pamphlet designed to attract prospective buyers to southeastern Nebraska, including a map showcasing the Burlington Route railroad network in the region. By 1887, the southeastern region of Nebraska was already well-settled and connected extensively by rail, largely dominated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, commonly known.....
An appealing promotional brochure for Yosemite National Park, including three colorful maps. This is one of two known issues of this scarce publication. Functioning as a “entrance” to the brochure, the cover panel shows a wagon passing through the “Gateway to Yosemite” at the base of the 28-foot-wide “Grizzly Giant”.....
A broadsheet promoting bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its first great construction push on the line, with a map at verso showing the projected rail line. Founded in 1865, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. only began breaking ground on construction in 1870 after receiving extensive financial.....
A landmark map of Oregon Territory by Rev. Samuel Parker, an early missionary to the region. This pioneering map was produced to accompany Parker’s travel account, Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains. It marked a major advance in the cartographic understanding of the region, featuring more accurate.....
An appealing map of Colfax and Mora Counties in northeastern New Mexico and part of southern Colorado, highlighting the famous and controversial Maxwell Land Grant. This map was produced by the Maxwell Land Grant Co. amid its legal battle to have the validity of its grant recognized. The Maxwell Land.....
A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets, free baggage (up to 200 lbs.), and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on the.....
A bird’s-eye view of Glacier National Park published by the Great Northern Railway shortly after the establishment of the park in 1910. This “aeroplane view” plays to the public interest in aviation in the 1910s before passenger flight became common in the ‘20s. Shown here are the park’s mountains, roads.....