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Relief shown by spot heights and hachures. Shows selected householders' names. Includes tourist information. Copy imperfect: Brittle, darkened, creased, stained. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2006-154
Covers the area between Toledo, Dayton, Connellsville, and Erie. Title devised by cataloger. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy soiled and annotated in pencil: For Exr. Disqua July 6, 1917. LC copy accompanied by handwritten (lead pencil) note describing revised coal rates. [1] sheet : ms. ; 26 x 21 cm.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows a meeting at the Guildhall in London on September 4, 1914, during which Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith encouraged military recruitment for World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.
1 print on board (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.
Title and date derived from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. In pencil mounted on cloth. Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G3880 186- .M32 Vault. Imperfect: Losses along fold lines and discoloration throughout. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 508.55 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Gift; Mrs. Carroll Greenough; Nov. 6, 1943.
Description derived from published bibliography. Annotations added in pencil and colored inks to indicate "Railroads tending to Richmond, Norfolk Alexandria and Baltimore," and the "proposed extension of the Manassas Gap Railroad west . . . Sep. 1852." Scale ca. 1:625,000. LC Railroad maps, 81 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Collection of historic photos from previous Lunar New Years (1985-2021) focused on the themes of fashion and textiles. Features costumes worn in religious ceremonies and by street performers.
Hand colored. Includes illus., "Time dial," and inset of "Map of Escambia & Santa Rosa Cos., Fl. showing Pensacola harbor and channel, Ft. Pickens, Ft. McRae, Bragg's batteries and the position of the U.S. fleet now before the harbor." On verso: Lloyd's American railroad weekly, vol. 1, no. 51, July 6, 1861. Scale ca. 1:1,900,800. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 14 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Galveston and vicinity, Texas -- Vicinity of the Rio Grande -- New Orleans and delta of the Mississippi, Louisiana -- Mobile harbor, Alabama -- Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida -- Wilmington and vicinity, N. Carolina -- Charleston harbor and its approaches, S. Carolina -- Beaufort and vicinity, N. Carolina. Imperfect: Creased, brittle, small tears along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2007-021
Shows fortifications near the Etowah River in the vicinity of Allatoona, Bartow County, Georgia. Bird's-eye view. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil. Imperfect: Fold-lined, mounted on paper. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S80 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "Territory of Alaska." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Designed to show "milt. post underlined in red," LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2
Relief shown by hachures. "Spring-summer, 1891." Panel title: Northern Pacific R.R., the Yellowstone Park route to Montana and the Pacific Coast. Alternate panel title: Northern Pacific R.R., the dining line car to Montana and the Pacific Coast. From the Joseph E. Willard papers. Includes index to "Points contiguous to Northern Pacific Railroad and connections." Text, railroad schedules, ill., and advertisements on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: tear and holes along fold lines.
Blue line print. Includes index map. Annotations in ink, pencil, and colored pencil on some maps. LC copy imperfect: Title page torn vertically along left side, front cover wanting, rear cover badly damaged, all maps significantly faded. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: John Carbonell Acquisitions control no. 2007-107
Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink on paper. Mounted on cloth. Shows the route of a proposed railroad, roads, streams, property lines, and the names of property owners. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Oriented with north toward the left. At right side, possible attribution note that is only partially legible: Wyndham [illegible] Jones. [Illegible]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Mrs. William D. Wrighton; April 1962. vcFY24
Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Cadastral map showing some landowners' names, drainage, roads, railroads, ranchos, Indian reservations, township and section lines, parcel boundaries, etc. "Copyright 1890 by T.D. Beasley." Includes table of "Areas of Mexican grants." LC Land ownership maps, 35 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Delineates the route of the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad, (named on map as A. & T. Riv. R-Ra.). Also shows roads, rivers, section lines, houses, and outbuildings. Relief shown by hachures. Signed in pencil in two places by the Confederate engineer "Geo. Wadsworth Chf Engr." Pen and ink and watercolor. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 103.5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 7-85 Vault
Main map covers city and suburbs. Inset maps cover railroad extensions into region. "Supplement to The Iron Age, March 22, 19[06]." Includes "Alphabetical list of works ...," indexed "Numerical list of works ...," list of blast furnaces, directory of railroad connections, and 5 insets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy brittle, torn along fold lines, and lacking sections along margins.