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Title: Nebraska and Kanzas.
Content Date: 1857
Copyright Date: 1855
Corporate Author: J. H. Colton & Co.
Size: 32 x 39 cm (12.6 x 15.4 inches)
Description: Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Inset map: Map of the Surveyed Portion of Nebraska.Prepared for Woolworth's Nebraska in 1857.From the Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers, MS 91-03, held by WSU Special Collections.Identifies Route Explored for Pacific Railroad by Capt. Gunnison.Identifies Route Explored for Pacific Railroad by Lieut. Beskwith.Identifies proposed route for a railroad to the West Coast as Gov. Stevens' Route & Line of the Proposed Pacific Railroad.Archaic spelling of Kansas.
Call Number: 1857-0005 |
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Title: J. R. Mead's Addition to Wichita
Content Date: 1870
Author: Mead, J. R.
Size: 66 x 53 cm (26 x 20.9 inches)
Description:Shows early Wichita street names.Shows property location, value and availability.Manuscript plat map drawn by J. R. Mead with his corrections and additions.From the Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers, MS 91-03, held by WSU Special Collections.
Call Number: 1870-0005 |
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Title: Map of Wichita Kansas.
Content Date: 1885
Copyright Date: 1886
Author: Niederlander, N. F.
Other Author(s): Mead, Jas. L.
Publisher: L. H. Everts & Co.
Size: 107 x 61 cm (42.1 x 24 inches)
Description:Map indicates property ownership, wards, street names, schools, prominent additions and businesses.Includes topographic features.Shows Wichita & Colorado Railroad; St. Louis, Ft. Scott & Western Railroad; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; and Wichita & Western Railroad.
Call Number: 1885-0008 |
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Title: Wichita Kansas 1887.
Content Date: 1887
Copyright Date: 1887
Author: Pierce, Herbert L.
Corporate Author: Poole Bros.
Size: 43 x 59 cm (16.9 x 23.2 inches)
Description:Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Cartouche for title.Includes illustrations: Cabin erected by William Mathewson (the original Buffalo Bill) in 1869 at Wichita, Kansas, Train of thirty-one cars of corn donated by Sedgwick County to the Ohio flood sufferers in 1884.Includes illustrations of hands pointing, a spider web, a train car, trains, horse drawn carriages and ships.Inset map: City of Wichita.Shows Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Wichita & Western Railroad; Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railroad; St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad; Missouri Pacific Railroad; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; and Midland Railroad.From the Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers, MS 91-03, held by WSU Special Collections.
Call Number: 1887-0012 |
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Title: Map of Kansas, 1888, Presented by Kansas Loan and Investment Co., Wichita, Kansas
Content Date: 1888
Copyright Date: 1888
Corporate Author: Rand, McNally & Co.
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co.
Size: 32 x 51 cm (12.6 x 20.1 inches)
Description:Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Verso includes manuscript notations by J. R. Mead.Archaic county names and boundaries.Shows Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Wichita & Western Railroad; Ft. Scott, Wichita & Western Railroad; St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad; Southern Kansas Railroad; Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Gulf Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad; and other unnamed lines.From the Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers, MS 91-03, held by WSU Special Collections.
Call Number: 1888-0007 |
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