Map Showing the Lines of Canals and Rail Roads Owned, Leased and Operated by the Delaware and Hudson Rail Road Company, with their Connections.
PrinterPrinted by
Weed, Parsons & Co.
(American, founded about 1849)
Date1873
MediumLithography; black printer's ink and color on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 30 x 28 1/4in. (76.2 x 71.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 31 1/2 x 29 5/8in. (80 x 75.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Ellen E. Flagg and Mrs. Harvey I. Maxson
Object number1930.11.1
DescriptionMap of the northeastern United States and part of Canada, showing the lines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad Company. Only part of New England is included, with Connecticut and Vermont and parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire appearing on the map. The different canal and railroad lines are explained in the Explanation List at the bottom right. The lines are also color-coded, although the color appears to have been applied incorrectly to the map. There are several lines that have been colored yellow that should actually have been green, and most of the lines are not colored at all.
Label TextIt seems likely that this map was published by the Delaware & Hudson Canal and Railroad Company to illustrate the extent of their transportation network. Jotted pencil notes on the lower margin indicating that the fare from New York City to Sheffield, Massachusetts was $3.50 and that the fare from New York to Hillsdale, New York was $2.75 suggest that the map was used by a nineteenth-century traveler to the Berkshires. Though the two towns are less than twenty miles apart, they were reached by two different railroad lines. Sheffield was served by the Housatonic Railroad, a Connecticut-based company; Hillsdale was on the Harlem Railroad, a New York-based line.
NotesCartographic Note: No scaleStatus
Not on view
Matthews-Northrup Company
1913
Traffic Department, New Haven, Connecticut
1915-1929
Samuel Augustus Mitchell
1834