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Library of Congress1879

Image 1 of Pioneer of Assumption (Napoleonville [La.]), June 28, 1879, (English)

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ASSUMPTION AND OF THE TOWN OF NAPOLEONVILLE Vol XXII NAPOLEONVILLE La SATURDAY JUNE 28 1879 No 2 THE CENTENNIAL MEDAL The Truth at Last THE HOWE MACHINE Again Triumphant At the 45th Exhibition of the American Institute Fair in this city the Howe Ma chiae was recommended by the judges and approved by the unanunous vote of the Board of Managers for the GRaOs GOLD CEmENw IAL MEDAL under the following rules This Medal of gold is to be awarded only for a machine product or process exhibited this Centenmnal year at the 45th Exhibition of the American Institute of the city of New York It can be awarded on gfor a machine product or process of great value decided imjortancet and of more than usual merit and then only by a majorityof the whole Board of Trustees upon the written report of three judges whose report shall certify to the above requirements and after said report shall have been approved by a majority of the whole Board of Managers It will be thes seen that the Howe still leads all competitorsand we chal leage all Sewing Machine Companies in the land to produce

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes "Authorities." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. LC copy annotated in color and black ink to show boundaries, place names, base lines, proposed Indian reservations and Indian land cessions. Vault AACR2

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Library of Congress1884

How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations

On sheet below map "We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees. Democratic platform, 1884." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Conserved; 003273.103 1977 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda Exhibition: Maps for an Emerging Nation: Commercial Cartography in Nineteenth-century America, Aug. 8-Oct. 20, 1977 .

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Library of Congress1855

Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state." In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the [illegible], Department of the Interior." Annotations in ink at lower center. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth, minor discoloration horizontally along lower right half and along upper left half. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1902

Indian Territory showing railroad systems, June 30, 1902

In upper right corner: Exhibit 5. In upper left corner: Ninth annual report, Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. From: United States. Dept. of the Interior annual report, 1902. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1862

Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico; compiled from Government surveys in the Topographical Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Signed in ms: "Milliard Fillmore, March 9, 1863." Another edition. 4 sheets, each 48 x 66 cm. dated 1863. Stephenson, no. 41. Description derived from published bibliography. "Exhibiting the sugar and cotton plantations, cities, towns, landings, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, the steamboat channel, mileage, fortifications, railroads, &c. along the river." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 28 LC Railroad maps, 139 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 23, 1905

LETTER FROM FLORIDA r The Hotel Royal I oinciana Maine Per sonals etc Special correspondence of The Journal Palm Beach Fla March 121905 One of the first questions which the visitor to Palm Beach asks and one that is never tiring to the traveler is that as to the size and dimensions of the Hotel Royal Poinciana and it may surprise some of my northern friends to learn of the size of this enormous hostelry The usual questions are How many will it accommodate How long is the building How many rooms does it contain In reply were most interesting The exhibits in fruit and vegetable lines were as fine as it was possible to have them and while Florida has been visited by a severe freeze they did not seem to be materi ally affected One of the largest catches of Spanish mackerel made here in a long time was that of yesterday when the fishermen who were out with nets captured a school in which there were thousands and they were dragged to the shore by the barrel Just previous to this catch a large ninefoot shark had been killed and pulled out on the shore and the

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Library of Congress1924

Image 3 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1924

The True Story of Woodrow Wilson By DAVID LAWRENCE CHAPTER IX The Private Life of Woodrow Wilson and the Whispering Campaign Os no phase of Woodrow Wilsons life was there less actual knowledge and at the same time more mlsrepre i sentatlon than the personal side The true story has never appeared In print largely because there never was an occasion to take public notice of that which originated in partisan politics Almost from the beginning of his political career Mr Wilson could not bring himself to believe that what he did in the privacy of his home what the members of his family did whom he entertained and whom he did not was of any business to the newspapers or the public On more than one occasion he exhibited indig nation over the inquiries of the press relative to his personal plans from day to dayhe never did become ac customed to the fact that Just as the secret service men were constantly in the company of a President of the United States so also the repre sentatives of the large press associa tions must keep their eyes on their President or at least know where he is every

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Library of Congress1936

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 13, 1936

MANY SPLENDID THAYERS FOUND IN LOCAL GALLERIES A JL________ WORK STRICTLY AMERICAN French Training Left No Mark Upon Character of Artist Who Is Represented in Three Capital Galleries by 31 Paintings Children Often Were His Models painting certain great works in stantly come to mind as for all time outstanding such as La Farges mural of The Ascension in the Church of the Ascension New York Homers Alls Well in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Thayers Caritas which has found permanent placement in the same institution The quality of Thayers work was happily recognized during his life time but since his death in 1921 his fame has steadily increased and found universal acceptance He was not a prolific painter When In 1922 a memorial exhibition of his work was held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York only 78 paintings some of which were un finished wer catalogued Under these circumstances it is very re markable and a matter of consider able congratulation that no less than 31 Thayers are in the permanent collections of art museums in Wash ington Sixteen are in the Freer Gal lery collection 13 are included in the collection left to

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Library of Congress1921

Image 8 of The independent-reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), December 29, 1921

We yield to the temptation to present our readers with the following very pleasant entirely unsolicited and unexpected letter recently received from one of the best known Advertising Agencies in New EnglandHttPjmtrntdKppnrtpr dnmpattg r DANIELSON SON V iSTAUSHKl 1SS i INDUSTRIAL TRUST BUILDING Providence Rhode Island i Skowhegan IndependentReporter i v 4 fv v Skowhegan Maine OjTJf T 1 f ct h r W J Dear Mr Patten V r v We have your exhibits of November 17th including a rate card and detailed state 0 I ment issued by the Audit bureau ot Circulations S A May we say that it is remarkable the manner in which you have proceeded to i I CAi illif Ot ue SOIf I AOUJ M H i l N t V f f J s assemble and furnish specific information concerning your medium and your field We jtn1 j tvspi04n or U n 1 m look to large dailies in metropolitan centers for information of tins character but have svri pr j tfn mfOLrtvrpoir COVCOIVUJS horn OO not been taught to expect anything of the sort from a weekly newspaper We are glad to i1 Trnf 11 Ut f V have the information

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