AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning's Railroad Map of the United States, Showing the Depots and Stations," NEW YORK, 1856, hand-colored with pencil inscription of route including off rail connections traversing Mt. Sterling, Kentucky southward to New Orleans, Louisiana, "Published in No. 156 Williams St., N.Y.," "Engraved by W.S. Barnard," at "No. 19 Beekman Street, N.Y.," the L/R with an inset "Plan of the New England States Enlarged Scale.," "Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning in Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of New York." 30 1/2" x 34 1/4" Note: The title artwork of an eagle rampant clutching arrows and olive branch over two men working, one with wheelbarrow, a steam locomotive with funnel chimney and paddlewheel boat in the river recedes into hill country and a town with a church on the riverbank. Provenance: Property from a Corporate Art Collection