Antilles

réf. 022857 — New York: George E. Leefe Lithographer. Unbound. Good. no date perhaps circa 1850s/60s; Single sheet roughly 42 by 6 ¾ inches. Printed on a single side only. Presumably disbound from a book or pamphlet of some sort. A map depicting the straight line of the proposed Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad running from Terre Haute Indiana to Illinoistown Illinois now East St. Louis. Chartered in 1850 the Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad generated contentious debate among the people of Illinois with those in Southern Illinois and those in the Central and North opposed. The opposition hired Abraham Lincoln and other lawyers in a suit to stop the railroad that ultimately failed. Even though the Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad Corporation succeeded in court the railroad never came to fruition. This map depicts various towns along with rivers such as the Wabash and the Mississippi and the intersection of other railroads like the Illinois Central and the Ohio and Mississippi Railroads. GOOD condition. Slightly ex-library with a historical society blindstamp at the right edge of the map. Many vertical fold creases presumably as issued. Minor toning and wrinkling to the map. Several of the gutters of the folds with two small holes offset from the center. George E. Leefe, Lithographer unknown