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Library of Congress1906

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 1, 1906

A MODERN ELECTRIC PUNT The System at Kidders Point a Success It Furnishes Both Light and Power An important auxiliary lias just been completed to the great commercial en terprise inaugurated by the Bangor Aroostook railroad at their seaport ter minala thoroughly uptodate power plant where electricity is generated to supply lights and power for the various needs of the railroad and its allied in dustries at its three great wharves and the intermediate points The power house has been erected and the entire electric plant installed by Charles E Dole contractor of Bangor according to plans made by M H Rideout of Bangor Mr Rideout was also superin tendent of construction and has done the engineering work throughout THE POWER HOUSE The power house itself is situated at the head of the mammoth dock at Kid ders Point It measures 90 by 40 feet is most substantially built of brick with foundation of concrete and roof and door of concrete and steel The chim ney looms up as a sort of landmark to be seen from far and near its neat buffcolored bricks towering 95 feet above terra firma The engine room measures 40x20 feet is high posted and

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 2, 1908

International Road Congress President Roosevelt Names Commissioners to Represent the U S Government Washington D C June 22 1resi dent Roosevelt lias directed that this Nation be strongly and officially repre seuted at the International Roads Coi gress to be held at Paris the week be ginning October 11 and credentials have been issued naming Logan Waller lage Director of the Office of Public Roads of the U S Department of Agri culture Chairmau of the Commission The other members named are Colonel Charles S liromwell of the United States Corps of Engineers now serving as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia and Clifford Richardson of New York an eminent chemist and one of the worlds acknowledged authorities on bituminous road building materials This coming Congress which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world is re garded by highway engineers and ex perts as probably the most iniportant ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile for while thousands are ignorant of the fact the solt tires ol the modern motor car are the greatest menace the hard

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Library of Congress1919

Image 24 of The Washington herald (Washington, D.C.), March 9, 1919

POTASH AND PERLMUTTER AT TKE PEACE CONFERENCE BY MONTAGUE GLASS Illuetrated by ALBERT levering Everything Is Proceeding SatisfactorilyMaybe 4 IIVBIIIT 1 DY THE MrttllRE NEWSPAPER SYNDICAT 5 Morris Perlmut M tir said to his partner Abe Potash a few days after Mr Wilsons return from his j visit to Italy up to a short time ago hardly anybody in America had ever even heard about Italys claim to the Dalmatian territory Naturally Abe replied be cause if there is six people in the whole United States which is en gaged in the business of telling spotted dogs to fire engine houses Mawruss that would be big al ready Morris threw up both hands in a gesture of despair What is the use talking foreign politics to a feller which thinks lhat Italys claims to the Dalmatian territory means she wants the exclusive right to make New York Cleveland Chi ca and Saint Louis with a line of spotted dog for fire engine com panies he exclaimed And I wouldnt even have known that it meant that much Abe retorted entirely unabashed excepting lhat six months ago my wifes sisters cousin wanted me I should advance her a hundred dol lars

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Library of Congress1926

Image 3 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), September 10, 1926

NASH ANNOUNCES NEW SPECIAL SIX SevenBearing Crankshaft Motor Heads List of Important New Features Heralded as introducing the worlds smoothest type of motor Nash has placed on display nationally the newly developed Special Six line comprising five models in open and closed body styles and powered by the new sevenbearing crankshaft motor termed by engineers the ulr tramodem type of six cylinder mo tor The debut of the new Special Six series has been awaited with extreme interest in veiw of earlier reports that Nash would achieve a significant achievement in motor engineering as well as a long list of important new betterments with no change in prices The first distinguishing attribute of this new motor is the superlative smoothness achieved by the use of the big seven bearing crankshaft in addition to great power and excep The motor is heavily insulated from the frame through the use of rubber insulation at the motor supports This practice intensifies the operative quietness and the almost vibration1 leas character of Nash performance There is also featured on these new motors a new crankcase breather an ingenious device which functions to prient crankcase dilution This breather also serves to keep the driving compartment

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Library of Congress1904

Plans showing deed and old location lines of the Western Railroad in the county of Worcester and state of Mass

"Compiled from locations filed in 1837-8 at the office of the county clerk, Worcester, Mass. from original deeds and plans on file at the Boston & Albany Railroad Engineer's Office. Green Lines compiled from grade crossing and other plans. Note: in 1867 the Western R.R. Corp. and the Boston & Worcester R.R. Corp. were consolidated to form the Boston & Albany R.R. Co." Pen-and-ink and colored ink. Annotations in pencil and colored pencil on some maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: John Carbonell Acquisitions control no. 2009-023

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Library of Congress1905

State of Sequoyah

Shows names of land owners and railroads. Covers part of eastern Oklahoma. "Map of Indian territory, edition of July 1902, revised to date, and county divisions made under direction of Sequoyah Statehood Convention, August and September 1905; by D.W. Bolich, Civil Engineer, Muskogee, Ind. Ter." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 99-6 AACR2

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Library of Congress1863

In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1863. -- Ordered to be printed with the documents. Mr. Morrill, from the special committee appointed to inquire into the facts relative to the chartering of transport vessels for the Banks expedition, and the character of the men employed to navigate them, submitted the following report in part

Andrew J. Richardson, ship owner, Niagara. Brigadier General George L. Andrews, U.S. Army. Charles H. Haswell, engineer and marine inspector. Commodore G.J. Van Brunt, U.S. Navy. Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping executive. Index follows p. 127. Lieutenant Colonel John W. Locke, U.S. Army. Notable witnesses include: Thomas D. Taylor, marine inspector and editor, American Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Thomas J. Southard, shipbuilder. Title taken from opening lines of text. SERIALSETDELIVERY1

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Library of Congress1858

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

"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1864

[Map of the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad between Blue Mountain Station and Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama]

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

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Library of Congress1850

Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of South Bend of Lake Michigan. It will be seen at a glance, that the unbroken line of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and the only winter route for northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, will be by the Michigan Southern Railway, and south shore of Lake Erie

Outline map of the north-central United States showing the canals and the railroad network and naming the Michigan Central and the Michigan Southern Railway. John B. Jervis was chief engineer on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in 1831.

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From the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean : from explorations and surveys

At head of title: Route near the 35th Parallel. Map no. 2. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps . . . to Illustrate the Various Reports . . . (Washington, 1859) Description derived from published bibliography. Insets: Sketch of Aztec Pass. Drawn by C. Mahon. From a sketch by A. H. Campbell, Civil Engineer. 12 x 17 cm.--Sketch of Campbell's Pass from Agua Azul to Salt Spring. Drawn by C. Mahon. 13 x 32 cm. Scale 1:950,400. LC Railroad maps, 153 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1839

A map of the Georgia Rail Road and the several lines of railroad connecting with it, Febr. 1839

Map of the southeastern United States indicating drainage, relief by hachures, place names, roads, canals in blue, Georgia Railroad in red, "R.R. completed & in progress" in yellow. "R.R. chartered & proposed" in brown. Probably made to accompany his Report of the Engineer in Chief, May 13, 1839. Created by Act of December 21, 1836. See also items 613 and 614.

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Library of Congress1863

Lloyd's new map of the United States, the Canadas, and New Brunswick, from the latest surveys showing every railroad & station finished to June 1862 and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the United States Superintendent's official reports of the Coast Survey by order of Congress

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd." General map of the eastern United States showing state and county boundaries, cities and towns, forts, roads, and railroads. This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss at the time of his death. Major Hotchkiss served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia. In July 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his map collection. Handwritten note on the verso reads "Lloyd's [sic] map of the United States, 1863 captured and used as part of my collection of maps, during the Civil War, 1861-5. Jed. Hotchkiss, Top. Eng., 2nd. Corps, Army N. Va." For the 1864 edition see Civil War Maps entry no. 50. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 41.4 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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Library of Congress1859

Map of the United States west of the Mississippi showing the routes to Pike's Peak, overland mail route to California and Pacific rail road surveys. To which are added the new state & territorial boundaires, the principal mail & rail road routes with all the arrangements & corrections made by Congress up to the date of its issue

"D. McGowan and George H. Hildt's 1859 map of the United States west of the Mississippi was based on an official map of 1857 produced by the Pacific railroad surveys. In the 1850s, Americans concluded that they needed to build a transcontinental railroad linking the east and center of the country with the Pacific coast. The U.S. Congress authorized the army topographical service to undertake engineering surveys and general assessments of five possible routes: from Saint Paul, Minnesota; from Council Bluffs, Iowa; from Saint Louis, Missouri; from Memphis, Tennessee; and from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Cities, states, and business groups competed fiercely to be the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad. This map offers an excellent example of a promotional map used to encourage settlement and investment in the American West. Published in Saint Louis, it emphasizes potential routes emanating from that city. The focus on Pike's Peak highlights the recent discovery of gold in Colorado. The map is hand-colored, framed in decorative borders, and shows drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, and transportation and communication networks." World Digital Library. Detailed general map framed in decorative borders showing drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, and the transportation and communication networks. An excellent example of a promotional map to encourage emigration. [From published bibliography]

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Library of Congress1902

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 27, 1902

1 hei SECRET DIDNT KEEP lU Married on le Sly Helen 4ity Hud Wedded to Herbert Stmiellt Calif Times Feb S 11102 like ot Los Angeles loved ukei ot Pasadena and so married but they didnt tell and relatives about it and it they would keep their i lev months Like other Lis however love will out I ime known yesterday that daughter of 1 B Duke pro the Vestlake Hotel in this allied January goth under iNtte circumstances to Iler Karl Barker a student at st itute w ho iives w iUi his ei Mrs James Barker on 1ohtes avenue Pasadena I Hikes mother and father are mi and lited having come to fourteen years ago from Term and Helen who was Kentucky lias the inherent d dash of the typical Sputh Inited with that beauty is a antic adventure which site confessed to her close marking on different oeca he would do something some day standing this warning how prised Iter friends and firm it g the young man who is mrse in mining engineering uts polytechnic school ui tier attractive appearance duly possesses ipiaiities of heart that have made her one st popular in her set and

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 7, 1905

MONTREAL AND QUEBEC Impressions of These Canadian Cities by an American Tourist Leaving Belfast on the 120 p m train Sept 27th we arrived in Portland at 635 and after a short stop there took a sleep er for Montreal over the White Mountain Division Well now a sleeper is all right but it proved to be a waker for me and I had a good chance to study the sky all night as I laid beside a window In the mean time others were sleeping 1 could tell this by a peculiar sound coming from some of the berths near me We were sidetracked at St Johnsbury Vt for a while waiting for the through train from Boston to Mont real We had been riding head towards the engine but after we were coupled on to the Boston train and started 1 said to my wife good Lord they are taking us to Moutreal feet first and so it was Well we were up and dressed early and had a good view of the country as we went speed ing along toward our destination We noticed that it was good farming land and very level for miles before we

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 18, 1910

Tgiectrie Plants That Make Money for Farmers hroUrh an old pasture on the Prf ared Van Wagenen Jr at iro p Xew York flows a very ifyerfU l hich one can easily step 1 1 water is high A little rosstu from the house is an old prhal rjng about three acres Siar rn tiny sawmills dotted lilt long P jht years ago I began to 1 to get this power to the it vuld do a little work t Wagenen My first i 5 i carry it there by belt vf proved that the fric D i t up the five horse power f t trio power easily trans tie loss was the only solu 151 i ked with many who un m niv and its engineering most of them laughed at jr hu1 a small installation construct a million would have been whole flS ce hut a small plant to f an be controlled by a i i wire was evidently a i good ileal of studying the plans were made nig so small the most water had to be ob r a imiciuvii ujjiigiu ht wooden case build if where it would get f d the fifteenfoot

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