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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
  title info:
    title: Explorations & surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
  title info:
    title: Pacific railroad surveys
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: War Department.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Henry, Joseph
    name part: 1797-1878
  name:
    name part: Baird, Spencer Fullerton
    name part: 1823-1887
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Army.
    name part: Corps of Engineers.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 1855
    date issued: 1860
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 12 volumes in 13 : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 30 cm.
  note: made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854.
  note: Also known as: Pacific railroad surveys.
  note: Hyphenated date in title varies: Suppl. volume 1 and volume 12: 1853-5; volumes 7-11: 1853-6; volume 6: 1854-5.
  note: Volumes 1-11 were issued in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents as 33d Congress, 2d session, Senate ex. doc. 78, and also as House ex. doc. 91.
  note: Supplement to volume 1 (the material of which was published also in volume 12, book 1-2) was issued in at least three forms: "Supplement to volume I" (1859, W.A. Harris, printer), as 35th Congress, 2d session. Senate ex. doc. 46; "Volume XII, Book I[-II]" (1860, T.H. Ford, printer), as 36th Congress, 1st session. House ex. doc. 56; and, "Volume XII, Book I[-II]" (1860, T.H. Ford, printer), as 36th Congress, 1st session. Senate ex. doc. [no number]. Cf. Checklist of United States public documents.
  note: Prepared under the direct supervision of the Engineer Dept. Volumes dealing with the soil, climate, geology, botany and zoology of the regions surveyed were edited and revised by Prof. Henry and Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution. Cf. Ingersoll, Hist. of the War Department (1879), pages 292-293.
  note: The Cushing Library/Dykes copies (Vol. 4, pt.5/pt.6; Vol.5, pt.3; Vol.12, pt.2) is from the Edsko J. and Margarett A. Dyksterhuis Collection.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Pacific railroads
    topic: Explorations and surveys
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Discovery and exploration
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  classification: W 7.14:
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 33rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 78
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 35th Congress, 2nd session, no. 46
  record info:
    record content source: MNU
    record creation date: 830513
    record change date: 20161221141333.0
    record identifier: in00001550607