Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "vd670589q",
    "label": "Mills map of the several routes proposed to the Pacific Ocean from the head waters of the Missouri, to the Isthmus of Darien",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "map",
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:vd670589q"
}

{
    "id": "vd670589q",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:vd670589q",
    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mills map of the several routes proposed to the Pacific Ocean from the head waters of the Missouri, to the Isthmus of Darien",
    "description": "Shows proposed routes for a transcontinental railroad.",
    "date": "[\"[1848]\"]",
    "year": 1848,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:vd670589q",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_018438",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "North America--Maps",
        "Railroads--North America--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North America",
        "North and Central America"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Cartographic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Abg25bn919",
    "iiifManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vd670589q/manifest",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:bg25bn919/image_thumbnail_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Abg25bn919/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "[Washington]"
}

{
    "url": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vd670589q",
    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
    "collectionArkId": "41688024w",
    "schema:latitude": 58.166,
    "schema:longitude": -104.466,
    "extent": "1 map ; 20 x 32 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Shows proposed routes for a transcontinental railroad.",
        "From Memorial of Robert Mills, respecting a new route to the Pacific Ocean, with a plan for the transportation of dispatches to Astoria in fifteen days (Washington : publisher not identified, 1848).",
        "Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.",
        "\"1. Sess. 30 Cong. Senate Mis. no. 51.\""
    ],
    "hasTranscription": false,
    "dcId": "vd670589q",
    "type": "map"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Abg25bn919/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "mediaId": "91d6a1e22d80fc7a"
}