1903 Folded Ohio Railway Map by J C Morris 32 ¼” x 28”, Linen backed in Original Buckram Covers

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Columbus Ohio, Columbus Liyjographic Co, 1903, hardcover

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1903 Railroad Map of Ohio prepared under the direction of J C Morris. Printed by the Columbus lithographic Co. Original black buckram covers. The map is folded into 32 sections and is backed on linen. Color-coded routes of all major railroad lines operating in the state. Lines include Baltimore & Ohio; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis; Erie; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; Michigan Central; New York, Chicago & St. Louis; and the Pennsylvania Company. Map shows towns, county seats, canals, coal lands, and tunnels, list of electric railways, telegraph companies, sleeping car companies, state institutions, hospitals, industrial schools, universities, public county institutions, and steam railroads. Attractive locomotive and train vignette at lower corner of map. Map is folded and bound into original black cloth covers with lettering stamped in gilt and blind-stamped border. This has some splitting along some of the folds. The hinges are weakening on the boards. See scans.