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THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP PROPOSING THE BALTIMORE AND PORT DEPOSIT RAILROAD. [Hazlehurst, Henry Richard]. Map of the proposed Rail Road to Port Deposite [sic]. Graphite and red and black ink on three sheets joined. "Scale. - 1 Inch to the Mile" WITH Hazlehurst, Henry Richard. Map and Profile of the Balt & Port-Deposit Rail Road as Located and now under Construction to a point near Havre de Grace. [Baltimore]: A. Schwanecker, January 1836. Lithographed map on two sheets. Manuscript: 13 7/16" x 35 â… ", 341mm x 904mm. Lithographed: SW: 16 â… " x 21 1/4", 416mm x 541mm; NE: 17 â… " x 20 3/4", 416mm x 527mm. Manuscript: some marginal smudges and creasing around corners. Not viewed out of mylar. Purple ink-stamp: "Property of the/ Maryland Academy of Sciences/ loaned to the/ Enoch Pratt Free Library/ 1937" and a black circular ink-stamp of the Enoch Pratt. Lithographed: Minor smudges on the northeastern sheet. Stamp for the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore on both sheets. Not viewed out of mylar. Both manuscript and lithographed maps presented with their original cartographic linen, to which they had been mounted. Henry Richard Hazlehurst (1815-1900), a veteran engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's routes from Washington, D. C. to West Virginia, produced the present manuscript map for the Baltimore & Port Deposit Railroad, part of a larger effort to run trains from Washington, D. C. to Philadelphia. Rail travel in the Mid-Atlantic states was a lucrative business, and two railroads competed for the better route: this one proposed here, closer to the coast, and one further inland that is now abandoned. The Baltimore & Port Deposit Railroad was one of America's first railroads, and was a symbol of America's skyrocketing growth as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This railroad allowed the two growing cities of Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. to grow into the metropolises they are today. This map, despite depicting a short section of the line, shows the ambition of the railroads. The manuscript map, probably drawn in late 1835 (lithographed in January 1836) proposes a route that by 1839 bore trains from Baltimore to Philadelphia. However, the story of this railroad -- which would become incorporated into the Pennsylvania Railroad (the Pennsy) -- stretches much further than just linking two mid-Atlantic port cities: it records the birth of the Northeast Corridor, America's most important train line, which carries in excess of 800,000 riders each day. The present maps were given anonymously to the Maryland Academy of Sciences in January of 1878, though it is generally understood that the donor was the widow of Philip T. Tyson, the State Agricultural Chemist, who in 1859 brought to completion the geological survey that had stopped with the death in 1849 of Jerome Ducatel, Maryland's State Geologist. The Maryland Academy of Sciences deposited the maps with the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore in 1937. Catalogued by Jonah Kramer. Seller Inventory # JBK0005
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