From a 1969 publication by the Chinese Historical Society of America comes this extensive look at the Chinese role in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad from California east to Utah.

A map from 1920 of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, steamship routes, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign...

A map from 1906 showing the borders of Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Guianas at the time. The map shows capitals, major cities, towns, ports, railroads, rivers, terrain and coastal features of the region, and portions of Panama,...

A map from 1914 of the West Indies and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, main steamship routes, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign possessions in the...

A map from 1920 of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign possessions in the region...

A map from 1920 of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign possessions in the region...

A map from 1903 of the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and an inset of Newfoundland. The map shows province and county borders, rivers, cities, and railroads. "New Brunswick, a province of...