Image:Pacific Telegraph Route - map, 1862.jpg

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Description

Map depicting the Pacific Telegraph Route, which was the western half of the First Transcontinental Telegraph line in the United States. The line was completed in 1861.
Source

"The New Naval and Military Map of the United States", by J. Calvin Smith, J. M. Atwood, map engraver, Philadelphia, Pa. 1862. 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Robert P. Smith.' Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C., via the website www.telegraph-history.org.
Date

1862.
Author

J. Calvin Smith, J. M. Atwood, map engraver.
Permission
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Public domain - author died more than 70 years ago.

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