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Library of Congress1865

America and her army

Microfilmed for preservation Also available in digital form. LAC nsk 2020-09-16 update (1 card)

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Library of Congress1878

Rand McNally & Co's business atlas : containing large scale maps of each state and territory of the United States, the provinces of Canada, West India Islands, etc., etc., together with a complete reference map of the world ... accompanied by a new and original compilation and ready reference index, showing in detail the entire railroad system of North America

Relief shown by hachures. Includes indexes. LC copy imperfect: pages brittle, front board detached. Phillips, 1402 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1873

Atlantic Ocean &c. : shewing the communication between Europe, North America and the Pacific

Shows transatlantic cables, steam and sailing routes, currents, and the Sargasso Sea; major existing and proposed railroads in the United States and Canada, Chagres Railway across Panama. Relief shown by contours. Annotated in ink: Black's General Atlas - 1873. Rubber-stamped: 626888 N. 41. Includes travel times and distances for various routes, dates of cables. In lower right margin: 39A.

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Library of Congress1863

By the president of the United States of America. A proclamation : Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued ... Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested ... do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free ... Done at the city of Washington this first day of January ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three

"Third edition. This is the official State Department folio. Printed ... circa January 3, 1863"--Cf. Eberstadt, C. Lincoln's Proclamation, 1950, page 28.

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Library of Congress1917

Military map of the United States of America : showing location of all forces in training

Relief shown by hachures. Includes text. Includes "Allentown" in Pennsylvania and "Camp Joseph E. Johnston" in Florida. To the right of the copyright statement: 8-1'-17. In lower right corner: 5095. In lower left corner within text box: 595. Historical text, illustrations (some color), lists of camps, stations, and barracks, and publisher's list on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1850

A new map for travellers through the United States of America showing the railways, canals & stage roads, with the distances

Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Includes illustrations. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by J. Calvin Smith, in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York". Insets: Railroad & canal routes from Albany to Buffalo -- Map showing the rail roads between the cities of New York, Boston &. Albany & the Hudson R. from N. York to Albany -- Rail road route from New York to Philadelphia --Rail road route from Philadelphia to Washington -- Map of Oregon, Northern California, Santa Fé &c. LC copy signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, March 1852. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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