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"35230.1 6-61." "For official use only." Includes inset of "Peiping and adjacent area." LC copy stamped on: 137B. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC copy stamped on: 317A. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"6-60." "For official use only." Includes inset of "Peiping and adjacent area." LC copy stamped on: 354A. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. LC copy imperfect: number before date removed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Includes inset of "Peiping and adjacent area." LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"For official use only." Includes inset of "Peiping and adjacent area." LC copy sectioned in two and mounted on cloth. Left lower margin trimmed away. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"For official use only." In upper left: figure 9. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"12859 2-54." Includes inset of "Peking and adjacent area." "GPO-SSO-1930." LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. LC copy stamped on: 687. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Table of contents, p. V. Index, p. 1331.
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This map shows the major railroads located in the Russian Far East, Manchuria (China), and Korea in the early 20th century: the Ussuri Railroad, the Manchurian Railroad, and the Korean Railroad. The establishment of railroads was a major vehicle of imperial expansion and control in the Far East in this era, particularly for Russia and Japan. The map utilizes a variety of lines and colors to explain various phases of railroad construction: a double-black line for the completion of two tracks, a single black line for completion of one track, a red line for an established but only partially constructed railroad, and a dashed black line for a proposed (but still unbuilt) railroad. Several well-known Russian, Chinese, and Korean cities are shown on the map. These include Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok in Russia; Harbin, Mukden (present-day Shenyang), and Port Arthur (Lüshun) in China (Manchuria); and P'yongyang and Seoul in Korea. Black triangles signify the presence of Japanese troops in parts of northeastern China and Korea, reflecting the extensive military occupation by Japan following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5. In the 19th century, as the Qing Dynasty of imperial China weakened, both Russia and Japan sought to take advantage of China's waning power by expanding into areas of northeastern China and neighboring Korea. Russia forced China to cede territories north and east of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers in the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and in the Convention of Peking of 1860 and increased its influence in Manchuria from its base of operations in Harbin. Japan moved aggressively into China and Korea after victories in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and in the Russo-Japanese War. As Japan became ascendant in the region after 1905, it targeted Russian railroad interests and reengineered local rail networks to serve its own interests. This map was compiled from notes of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for use in a book on the Maritime Region of Russia (Primorskiy Kray, near Vladivostok). The map shows a scale at the bottom that utilizes the verst, a tsarist-era unit of distance equal to 1.07 kilometers. World Digital Library.
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Railroad map of Manchuria with the Chinese Eastern Railway emphasized Relief shown by shading Title from head of legend LC sheet use-worn, torn at fold lines. Includes illustrations (1 in color) Text, notes, and train timetables on verso Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Grant Harris; July 1995. In Russian