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Montague's Illinois and Missouri state directory for 1854/5
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Illinois and Missouri
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One of 11 maps bound together into a red leather case. The 10 other state maps by Tanner, hinged in the same vol. : (21217) Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. 1827 ; (21818) New York. 1827 ; (21819) Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 1827 ; (21820) Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. 1827 ; (21821) Kentucky and Tennessee. 1827 ; (21822) Ohio and Indiana. 1827 ; (21823) North & South Carolina. 1827 ; (21824) Georgia and Alabama. 1827 ; (21825) Louisiana and Mississippi. 1827 ; (21827) Florida. 1827 Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Land Papers: Missouri and Illinois
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The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
BC 998, 1139, 1275, 1361, 1408-1415
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Illinois and Missouri / by H.S. Tanner
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Alternate title from cover. Canals and proposed rail lines shown in MS lines. MS notes on what was previously Putnam County show its division into Putnam, Bureau, Stark, and Marshall Counties; this change occurred in 1839. Details are most full near waterways, especially the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers. Very little detail around Chicago. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. MS inside cover: Andrew Johnston, Quincy Illinois.
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