Map Issued by G.C.R.R. According to Latest Surveys
- Title:
- Map Issued by G.C.R.R. According to Latest Surveys
- Alternate Title:
- The Great Celestial Railroad
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Owen, Olin Marvin
- Date:
- 1893
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1113.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1113_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- Religion
Heaven and Hell
Allegorical
Railroads
Conduct of Life - Measurement:
- 14 x 8 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- The collection includes a number of allegorical "roadmaps" intended to encourage the viewer to act in conformity with religious norms. See Subjects > Heaven and Hell; Conduct of Life. This map illustrates a work by Olin Marvin Owen entitled "The Great Celestial Railroad from the City of Sin to the City of God the Only Direct and Through Line. With a Description of the Cars, Persons, Places and Scenes on the Route, from Notes Taken on the Way. Containing Also A Brief Description of Opposition Roads. An Allegory."
Riders from the City of Sin who pass by the Valley of Humiliation to the Celestial Depot may take the G.C.R.R., direct route to the City of God Grand Central Depot. All other paths are more problematic. The Papal Depot supports the Pope's Line - to Purgatory. The Universalist Depot leads to the Bottomless Pit, as does the Genteel Route from Novelreadersville, the Moderate Drinkers Route from Sample Room, and the Destruction R.R. Main Line from the Gilded Sin Pavilion. Some lines lead entirely off the map: the Evolution Line to the Great Unknown and the Compromise Route.
For a related map, see ID #2568.01-03, "Great Celestial Route (1908).
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Owen, Olin Marvin. rev. ed. 1893. The Great Celestial Railroad from the City of Sin to the City of God the Only Direct and Through Line. With a Description of the Cars, Persons, Places and Scenes on the Route, from Notes Taken on the Way. Containing Also A Brief Description of Opposition Roads. An Allegory. Syracuse: A.W. Hall.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.