In ten years rail lines spread from the Atlantic coast to beyond the Mississippi River, and trunk lines carry a long haul traffic. The iron horse is a strange and powerful factor in economic and political development. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Plan of Pittsburg in 1817. Date: 1906 Creator: Fordham, Elias Pym Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Fordham, Elias Pym. Fordham's Personal Narrative 1817-1818. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906.
Ohio River Flatboat (A), and Keelboat (B) Date: 1906 Creator: Fordham, Elias Pym Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Fordham, Elias Pym. Fordham's Personal Narrative 1817-1818. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906.
English Prairie. Date: 1906 Creator: Fordham, Elias Pym Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Fordham, Elias Pym. Fordham's Personal Narrative 1817-1818. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906.
The Great Salt Lake Region. Date: 1853 Creator: Unknown Category: Place Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Unknown. The Mormons. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1853.
Map of Illinois Showing County Boundaries 1818. The black dots on the map indicate the number of representatives from each County in the Constitutional Convention of 1818. Date: 1913 Creator: Illinois Constitutional Convention Type: Map Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Illinois Constitutional Convention. 'The Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1818' in 'Journal of the Illinois Stage Historical Society'. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society v. VI, no. 1: 327-424, 1913.
Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of Illinois Date: 1822 Creator: unknown Category: Place Type: Map Permission: Knox College. Source: Knox College
Map of the Environs of Nashville, Tennessee Date: 1834 Creator: Knight, J. Category: Place Type: Map Permission: Newberry Library Source: Baird, Robert. View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West. Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1834.