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Report of the Board of Directors of Internal Improvements of the state of Massachusetts on the practicability and expediency of a rail-road from Boston to the Hudson River, and from Boston to Providence : submitted to the General Court, January 16, 1829 : to which are annexed, the reports of the engineers, containing the results of their surveys and estimates of the cost of constructing a rail-road on each of the routes selected : with plans and profiles of the routes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massachusetts. Board of Internal Improvements.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Massachusetts.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--New York (State).
- Railroads--Rhode Island.
- Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76, 119, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (fold.) ) 6 fold. maps ;
- Other Title:
- Report of the Board of Directors of Internal Improvements of the state of Massachusetts on the practicability and expediency of a rail-road from Boston to the Hudson River, and from Boston to Providence
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Press of the Boston daily advertiser, 1829 (W.L. Lewis)
- Contents:
- Report of the Board of directors
- Report of Mr. Baldwin on the rail-road surveys from Boston to the Hudson river
- Report of Mr. Hayward on the rail-road surveys between Boston and Providence
- Mr. Willard's report on the cost of stone for the rail-road.
- Notes:
- Signed (p. 76, 1st count): "Levi Lincoln, Nathan Hale, Stephen White, David Henshaw, Thomas W. Ward, Royal Makepeace, George Bond, William Foster, Edward H. Robbins, Jr."
- Some plans engraved by J.V.N. Throop. Sc. One plan engraved by Annin & Smith.
- Two states of one of the maps noted. In the first state, the map has title "Profile of a survey for a rail-road ..." In the second, the map has title "Profile no 1 of a survey for a rail-road ..." The American Antiquarian Society copy with the first state of the "Profile" was evidently issued without plate "No. 3."
- "Report ... on the rail-road surveys from Boston to the Hudson River" signed (p. 70, 2nd count): "Jas. F. Baldwin, engineer."
- "Report ... on the rail-road surveys between Boston and Providence" signed (p. 99, 2nd count): "James Hayward."
- "Mr. Willard's report on the cost of stone for the rail-road" signed (p. 119, 2nd count): "Solomon Willard, architect of the Bunker Hill Monument. Boston, December 4, 1828."
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 6768.
- OCLC:
- 12
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