Rail Road Route from Boston, Massachusetts to Chicago, Illinois – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Rail Road Route from Boston, Massachusetts to Chicago, Illinois comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rail Road Route from Boston, Massachusetts to Chicago, Illinois
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Rather than a view of a city, this color print traces a single itinerary: the rail route that carried passengers and freight from Boston across New England and New York to Chicago. Route maps like this became common in the 1850s and later, once connecting lines linked the Atlantic seaboard to the fast-growing city on Lake Michigan. Chicago had become the country's leading rail hub, so these maps served both as travel guides for passengers and as promotional material for the companies that ran the lines.
| Original scan | 4,078 × 3,386 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | rr000870 Road road route from Boston, Massachusetts to Chicago, Illinois. |
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