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Topographic strip map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, roads, houses, property owners names, and county names. This line was chartered in Ohio, March 2, 1846. It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860.
Topographic strip map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, roads, houses, property owners names, and county names. This line was chartered in Ohio, March 2, 1846. It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860.
Printed topographic strip map with manuscript annotations to show the geologic structure along the route of the railroad. The Alexandria and the Chesapeake and Ohio canals and stage stable for horses used on the Piedmont stage route to North Carolina are also indicated. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company was founded in 1848 to divert hinterland products away from Baltimore and Richmond to Alexandria, Va. Construction was begun in 1850 and was completed to Culpeper in 1852 and to Gordonsville in 1854, from where the rail line connected with the Virginia Central. Warrenton, originally on a proposed earlier route, was linked by a branch line in 1853. The Manassas Gap Railroad, the first rail line to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains, was completed to Strasburg in 1854 and joined Alexandria with the upper Piedmont Valley.
Sketch map of the eastern United States showing the railroad network and emphasizing the routes between St. Louis and Chicago, and Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.
"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.
Register of Deep Water Vessels SHIPS Abner Coburn B F Colcoril from New castle N S AV for Honolulu sailed from Sydney March 18 A G Hopes Chapman cleared from New York Jan 10 for Yokahama ar at Anjer prior to May 3 A J Fuller C M Nichols sailed from Fort Townsend April 2 for Cape Town Aryan A T AVhittier arrived at New York May it from San Francisco Bangalore Philadelphia for Nagaski spoken April lat oil N Ion 88 AV F B Sutton J P Butman cleared from New York April 18 for Tsintau Emily F AVhitney A S lendeton sailed from San Francisco April 25 for Kahului Emily Heed sailed from Sydney NSW May 13 for Honolulu Gov Robie F Coleord siled from New castle N S AV April 15 for Honolulu Henry B Hyde A AA Blanchard sailed from Baltimore Jau it for San Francisco Mary L Cushing J N Pendleton sailed from New AAhatcom Wash March 9 for Gape Town Manuel Llaguno 1 C Nichols cleared from New York Feb 28 for Hong Kong Puritan A N Blanchard sailed from San Francisco Nov 2 for Hull Reaper sailed from Port Townsend Oct 2 Port
Register of Deep Water Vessels SHIPS AbnOr Coburn B F Colcord arrived at Honolulu May 10 from Newcastle N S W A G Hopes Chapman cleared from New York Jan 10 for Yokanama ar at Anjer prior to May 3 A J Fuller C 51 Nichols sailed from Port Townsend April 2 for Cape Town Aryan A T Whittier arrived at New York 5Iay 9 from Ban Francisco Rangalore Philadelphia for Nagaski spoken April lat 39 N ion 08 W E B Sutton J P Butman cleared from New York April 10 for Tsintau Emily F Whitney A S Pendeton sailed from San Francisco April 25 for Kahului Emily Heed sailed from Sydney N S W May 13 for Honolulu Gov Kobie F Colcord sailed from New castle N S W April 15 for Honolulu Henry B Hyde A W Blanchard sailed from Baltimore Jan 9 for San Francisco Mary L Cushing J N Pendleton sailed from New Whatcom Wash March 0 for Cape Town 5Ianuel Llaguno D C Nichols cleared from New York Feb 28 for Hong Kong Puritan A N Blanchard sailed from San Francisco Nov 2 for Hull Reaper sailed from Port Townsend Oct 2 Port Gamble
POLITICAL POINTS Mr Bryan declares that President Roosevelts letter indorsing Mr Taft is irrelevant and immaterial That is what a tioubled lawyer always says of hostile testimony which he cannot refute Mr Bryan dodged the cameras in Baltimore for fear that the photographer would catch him without his victory ex pression He clearly realizes that his victory expression wont pass at its lace value in Maryland Mr Taft believes in revising the tariff with judgment Bryan proposes to re vise it with a bludgeon Being scared to death and overconfident at the same time is the condition ascrib ed to Chairman Frank H Hitchcock by Bryan organs Those who have known Hitchcock any length of time have never known him to be either Even though Mr Taft were not to come to California there is no doubt that Cal ifornia will go to him Los Angeles Times Now that Theodore Roosevelt Jr has reached his majority Taft has two votes in the Roosevelt family not counting Nicholas Lingworths Bryan is going to visit Judge Parker and Dave Hill Once before in a Presi dential campaign Bryan visited the Sage of Wolforts Roost but nothing happen ed Out in Missouri there
funny things How Newspaper Humor Has Grown and Changed The Short Joke is a Product of Recent Years JVlany Good Samples of Wit and Humor in Past and Present In the file room of The Baltimore American are the bound volumes of the paper dating back to 1773 writes W IX Nesbit Josh Wink in the Inde pendent Here the person who feels an interest in the study of the growth and development of newspaper humor In America may spend some musty dusty tjlIt doubtless enlightening hours Con sidered in the light of present day wit there was no newspaper humor a cen tury ago If we will but remember the mental attitude ot the strictly moraled people of those days we shall recall the fact that at that time any mani festation of humor was regarded as in tensely unregenerate if not wholly wicked w see in the historical novel of today much of the sprightly wit and brilliant conversation of the old colonial regime but it was not re flected in the papers of that time To get any newspaper humor to speak of tve mu t on down to about 50 years ago lien it began to
THE MUNSEY BUILDING Penn ave between 13th and 14th sta New York Office 175 Fifth Ave Chicago Office17T10 Commercial Bank Rldg Poston QR cones snsse ie Journal Building Philadelphia Office 612 Chestnut St Baltimore Officecoveeecconss News Building FRANK A MUNSEY Proprietor EDGAR D SHAW PAUL C PATTERSON Manager Managing Editor Be 101s Is the ate mace dy a MONDAY EVENING JUNE 6 1910 BUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL H 1 mo 3 mos 6 mos 1yr Daily and Sunday630 090 175 359 Dally onlycaies 25 05 150 309 Sunday only o 50 i The number of complete and perfect copies of The Washington Times printed daily dur ing the month of Mav was as follows i Rf TT NIE III ISN Sa ns ing the month of May was as follows Se Lod Total for the month ensinmsssssasinadert Daily average for the month 4987 Il Hi The net total circulation of The Times daily during the month of May was 1158932 all copies left over and returned being eliminated This number when di vided by 26 the number of days of publica tion shows the net daily average for May to have been 44574 H r ii The number of complete
he Washington Times i SD A EB ii EE i TT i Published Every Evening in the Year at 1 r THE MUNSEY BUILDING Penn ave between 13th and 14th sts i 1 Chicago Office1710 Commercial Bank Rldg Poon ONIOR um cusses ves seems Journal Building Philadelphia Office 612 Chestnut St Baltimore Officeccun News Building i Fifth Ave Oftk i i y FRANK A MUNSEY Proprietor EDGAR D SHAW PAUL C PATTERSON General Manager Managing Editor a eT SS tT RE iH J i TUESDAY EVENING JUN NE 7 1910 1 tl SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL Imo 3 mos mos 1yr Daily and Sunday030 0 175 350 Dally only cones 25 iY 150 300 Sunday only 50 a BY H i Hi I TE 2 TITIES aN TNE aE aa il i 2g the month of May was as follows 50147 51341 il 17 T iH May i amsnnensus The net total eirculation of The Times daily during the month of May was 1158532 all copies left over and returned being eliminated This number when di vided by 26 the number of days of publica tion shows the net daily average for May to have been 44574 Mav Sunday A
mt mmt W H Scanland Bditor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA Thureday t February 16 1899 Cleveland Ohio will model her school system after that in vogue at St Louis________ Friday the Senate passed the House bill to establish a national military park at Vicksburg Miss Baltimore has about twofifths of the population of Maryland and pays about twothirds of the taxes The report of the United States treasury for January shows a deficit of about 9500000 for that month The North Carolina Legislature has passed a law making all contracts made by or with trustt null and void An epidemic of spotted fever or cerebro spinal meningitis was re ported raging at Morgantown Ky last we ek _ The Amerioan forces in front of Manila made an attaok on Calooean village last Friday and reduced it in short o rder _ It was so cold in Pittsburg Penn Friday that the ears of bogs in stock oars were frozen so stiff that they dropped off William Laird of the shipbuilding firm wbieh built the Confederate war Teasel Alabama died at Liverpool on the 7th inst The cost of the addmistration of the affairs of Cuba during the month of January
II Jim Bomboys Service v Broadway Drive Dial 22594 i I Tis time to rejoice and honor the Nativity of onr Saviour and to reflect and reieiher Bis teachings j i l I Meridian Fertilizer Factory i i Hattiesburg j y T i I jt 4 11 r V f jj VT Long Bitter Fight Led To Nations Press Freedom The list is small It begins with John T Morris of the Baltimore Sun It ends for the moment with Marie Torre of the New York Herald Tribune Its a list of reporters who have this in common they have gone I to jail rather than name the source of information given them in confidence Their defense of what they con sidered a moral principle has sparked 12 states to place con versations between a reporter and a news source in the same privileged place as conversations between priest and penitent doc tor and patient attorney and client However the number of states giving legal approval to a report ers privilege doesnt appear des tined to increase For while re porters are almost unanimously in favor of the socalled shield laws legal groups the American Civil Liberties Union and even
Covers area in central Washington D.C. bounded by Pennsylvania Av. N.W./S.E., 9th St. S.E., N St. S.E., diagonally northwestward to 14th St. S.W. Shows railroad yards, connecting trackage, and city block numbers. "October 1889." Typewritten on label affixed to verso: Ground covered by House bill 8243. Blueprint with selected tracks emphasized in red pencil. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 22 x 14 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP
Typewritten on label affixed to verso: Profile of Sixth St., M'd & V'a Ave's, from the tunnel to the Potomac, showing effects of sinking tracks, &c. 1890. Blueprint annotated in yellow, red, and lead pencils. Profile drawn in 3 segments. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 22 x 14 cm. Includes drawing of "P.R.R. standard 60000 lb. freight car on standard roadbed." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP
Outline map covering New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio; shows drainage, canals, important cities, and railroad connections, chartered in 1828, opened to York in 1838.
LAC nsk 2021-03-24 create (1 card) Item previously identified as Stern broadside portfolio 9 no. 25 - mvar 2025-1-6 References Maryland politicians Thomas Holliday Hicks and Henry Winter Davis. Also available in digital form.
History and roll call of Company G.