Uncommon Railroad Map of Civil War Battlefields
"Battlefields of the War Between the States Reached by the Pennsylvania Railroad and its Connections"
Color-printed folding map, circa 1902, 'drawn and engraved' by the American Bank Note Company, New York, and published by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, showing the sites of battlefields as far south as Norfolk, VA and as far west as Pittsburgh, on thin cream paper, with vertical and horizontal folds as issued (now flattened); one small torn area in the lower-center but with all paper present (on the Delmarva Peninsula), a few very slight pinholes and some slight paper separation at fold joints all now strengthened with archival tape on the reverse, but otherwise in good condition and an uncommon map.
Together with the dated envelope from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company New England Passenger Agent in which the map was originally mailed.
Neatline 17 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches
Sheet 19 x 20 inches
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There was increased interest in visiting, or revisiting, Civil War battlefields at the end of the nineteenth century, and the railroads would have been obvious businesses to boost this travel - catering both to tourists or veterans in the north as well as the south (note the use of 'War Between the States' in the title of this map). We have been able to locate one other map by a railroad company promoting this type of travel (published by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in 1902), but no other impressions of this particular map.
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