Box 1

The Pocket Travel Map Collection, consists of 22 maps dating from 1835 to 1916. The travel maps resemble a small book with hard covers containing a folded map so the traveler could easily fit the map inside their pocket. Often times included with the maps were indexes and historical information about the area. The maps have been stored in their original folded state therefore are extremely fragile. The researchers should be extremely careful when handling the maps.

color; Features: placenames, stage roads, canals, rivers; Insets: population key according to census of 1830, steam boat routes and inset map of the lead mine region east of the Mississippi River

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color;  Township Map is missing that accompanies this publication.  The map enclosed is of the state of Illinois.

color; Features: boundaries, rivers, capitals of states, principal cities and towns, principal traveling roads, common roads, canals, lakes; Legend Insets: Vicinities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore & Wash., Charleston, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Albany, & Falls of Niagara. Consulting index accompanies map - giving placenames locations on map and index to stage, steamboat, canal and railroad routes.

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color; Features: towns, villages, railroads, boundaries, common roads, canals, counties color coded; Legend Inset: Vicinity of Chicago; Verso: Census of Illinois Counties

color; Features: placenames, boundaries, rivers, railroads, counties named; Inset: Map of Chicago showing boundaries of wards, railroads, Inset - Population of Illinois Counties 1850 & 1840

color; Features: placenames, boundaries, rivers, railroads, counties names; Inset: map of Chicago showing boundaries of wards, railroads

color; Features: railroads, proposed railroads, canals, placenames, counties named and color coded, rivers