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Sudan : administrative and railroads
" 563809756." on verso. " 7-63"--In lower left margin. "Boundary presentation is not necessarily authoritative." Shows international boundary, province boundaries, province administrative seats, and railroad stations (numbered). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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
North Carolina
Sheet detached from Rand McNally & Co's (Enlarged) Business Atlas, 1905. Includes text, listing of chief cities, inset of "Western portion of North Carolina," and indexed directory of the railroads. Text and Indexes (heavily annotated in red) on verso. LC copy imperfect: Use-worn, index heavily annotated in red, fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Jim Flatness; 25 February 2014.
Territory and military department of Utah
Relief shown by shading. Shows towns, wagon roads, explorers' routes, railroads, forts, etc., in Utah and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Washington Territory (now part of Southern Idaho), Oregon, Nevada and California. "Engraved by W.H. Dougal." "Corrections and additions in reference to railroads in California, etc., were made in January, 1862 ..." Prime meridian: Greenwich. Includes note and list of authorities. Signed on verso: Millard Fillmore May 15, 1861. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Nebraska and Kanzas
Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes explored for Pacific railroad by Captain J.W. Gunnison and Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith; shows route for a proposed railroad to the West Coast as Governor Stevens' Route & line of proposed Pacific railroad; and adjacent portions of neighboring states. Hand colored in pink to define territory and state boundaries. "Published by J.H. Colton & Co. No. 172 William St. New York.; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United Stated for the Southern District of New York." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes notes. At lower right: No. 50. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view of cable-railroad route drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO:2013--378-781/30004. Reprint 2004." Relief shown by shading. Title from panel. Includes text, index of cable inclines, view of summit sheds, and color illustrations. Text, small map of site, and color illustrations on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Map showing proposed routes of the Richmond and Southwest Railway
Base map: Hotchkiss' Geological Map of Virginia and West Virginia, the Geology by Prof. William B. Rogers, chiefly from the Virginia State Survey, 1835-41, "With later oservations in some parts.' On verso: Hotchkiss' Geography of Virginia, No. 3, Geological section by Profs. W.B & H.D. Rogers (1842). Horizontal scale 2.5 miles to 1 inch, 6 illustrations, and red & white sticker: 138. Stamped in lower left margin: 99A. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Carl Jügel's Post u. Reise Karte von Deutschland : und den Nachbar Staaten, bis London, Paris, Montpellier, Florenz, Warschau, Kopenhagen
Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Publication and edition information from cover. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy sectioned into 48 and mounted on cloth, folding to 21 x 14 cm. Signed on French cover on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed above French legend on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed on manuscript label on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. In addition to the printed title label, manuscript title label, French legend and list of postal rates, and the two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend, parallel title, and list of postal rates.
Übersichts-Karte der Eisenbahnen und der bedeutenderen Post- und Dampfschiff-Verbindungen in Deutschland : und den angrenzenden Ländern
Unidentified prime meridian. Includes list of units of measurement per one degree at the Equator. LC copy sectioned into 8 and mounted on cloth, folding to 20 x 12 cm. Signed on verso in upper right: Millard Fillmore 1856. Mounting effaces map on verso, which seems to be a map of middle Europe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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.
Tekhnicheskiĭ proekt zheleznodorozhnoĭ linii Chum-Salekhard-Igarka. Tom IV. Prodol'nyĭ inzhenerno-geologicheskiĭ profil'. Uchastok stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Labytnangi - stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Nadym. 1-i︠a︡ chast'
This item is from a collection of materials related to the Salekhard-Igarka Railway, an unfinished Soviet railroad sometimes called the "Dead Road." This railroad was intended to unite European Russia with the northern regions of Siberia and to facilitate the export of minerals from the industrial city of Noril'sk. Construction began in 1949 but was abandoned in 1953 after Stalin's death. Stalin had ordered the construction of the railroad without heeding the advice of specialists, who knew that a railroad built on permafrost would be difficult to maintain. Stalin considered the railroad strategically necessary to facilitate the defense of Russia's northern coast; however, actual demand for the railway was low. Construction was divided into two projects, number 501 and number 503, and was carried out by prisoners of the infamous gulag system. According to eyewitness accounts, conditions in the camps of these projects and in Yermakovo, the central settlement of construction project 503, were better than in most parts of the gulag system. This collection consists of photographs, documents, maps, letters, and memoirs housed in the Igarka Museum of Permafrost. Photographs depict daily life in Yermakovo, a settlement near Igarka, abandoned buildings and railroad equipment, and musicians and actors of the projects' cultural and educational divisions. Many of the photographs were taken by Walter Ruge (1915-2011) and depict his wife Irina Andreevna Alferova. Ruge completed a ten-year sentence as a political prisoner in 1951 before he was released to live as an exile in Yermakovo, where he met Alferova, a fellow exile. The collection's documents and maps provide information about the planning and construction of the railroad and the administration of the camps, while the memoirs and letters describe the experiences of prisoners, exiles, and civilian residents of Yermakovo and the camps. The collection was digitized in the early 2000s for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project. World Digital Library.
Tekhnicheskiĭ proekt zheleznodorozhnoĭ linii Chum-Salekhard-Igarka. Tom IV. Prodol'nyĭ inzhenerno-geologicheskiĭ profil'. Uchastok stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Labytnangi - stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Nadym. 2-i︠a︡ chast'
This item is from a collection of materials related to the Salekhard-Igarka Railway, an unfinished Soviet railroad sometimes called the "Dead Road." This railroad was intended to unite European Russia with the northern regions of Siberia and to facilitate the export of minerals from the industrial city of Noril'sk. Construction began in 1949 but was abandoned in 1953 after Stalin's death. Stalin had ordered the construction of the railroad without heeding the advice of specialists, who knew that a railroad built on permafrost would be difficult to maintain. Stalin considered the railroad strategically necessary to facilitate the defense of Russia's northern coast; however, actual demand for the railway was low. Construction was divided into two projects, number 501 and number 503, and was carried out by prisoners of the infamous gulag system. According to eyewitness accounts, conditions in the camps of these projects and in Yermakovo, the central settlement of construction project 503, were better than in most parts of the gulag system. This collection consists of photographs, documents, maps, letters, and memoirs housed in the Igarka Museum of Permafrost. Photographs depict daily life in Yermakovo, a settlement near Igarka, abandoned buildings and railroad equipment, and musicians and actors of the projects' cultural and educational divisions. Many of the photographs were taken by Walter Ruge (1915-2011) and depict his wife Irina Andreevna Alferova. Ruge completed a ten-year sentence as a political prisoner in 1951 before he was released to live as an exile in Yermakovo, where he met Alferova, a fellow exile. The collection's documents and maps provide information about the planning and construction of the railroad and the administration of the camps, while the memoirs and letters describe the experiences of prisoners, exiles, and civilian residents of Yermakovo and the camps. The collection was digitized in the early 2000s for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project. World Digital Library.
Kombinirovannai︠a︡ s"emka Zheldorproekta i SPIĖ Arktikproekta
This item is from a collection of materials related to the Salekhard-Igarka Railway, an unfinished Soviet railroad sometimes called the "Dead Road." This railroad was intended to unite European Russia with the northern regions of Siberia and to facilitate the export of minerals from the industrial city of Noril'sk. Construction began in 1949 but was abandoned in 1953 after Stalin's death. Stalin had ordered the construction of the railroad without heeding the advice of specialists, who knew that a railroad built on permafrost would be difficult to maintain. Stalin considered the railroad strategically necessary to facilitate the defense of Russia's northern coast; however, actual demand for the railway was low. Construction was divided into two projects, number 501 and number 503, and was carried out by prisoners of the infamous gulag system. According to eyewitness accounts, conditions in the camps of these projects and in Yermakovo, the central settlement of construction project 503, were better than in most parts of the gulag system. This collection consists of photographs, documents, maps, letters, and memoirs housed in the Igarka Museum of Permafrost. Photographs depict daily life in Yermakovo, a settlement near Igarka, abandoned buildings and railroad equipment, and musicians and actors of the projects' cultural and educational divisions. Many of the photographs were taken by Walter Ruge (1915-2011) and depict his wife Irina Andreevna Alferova. Ruge completed a ten-year sentence as a political prisoner in 1951 before he was released to live as an exile in Yermakovo, where he met Alferova, a fellow exile. The collection's documents and maps provide information about the planning and construction of the railroad and the administration of the camps, while the memoirs and letters describe the experiences of prisoners, exiles, and civilian residents of Yermakovo and the camps. The collection was digitized in the early 2000s for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project. World Digital Library.
Skhematicheskai︠a︡ karta Ussuriĭskoĭ, Mandzhurskoĭ i Koreĭskoĭ zheleznykh dorog
This map shows the major railroads located in the Russian Far East, Manchuria (China), and Korea in the early 20th century: the Ussuri Railroad, the Manchurian Railroad, and the Korean Railroad. The establishment of railroads was a major vehicle of imperial expansion and control in the Far East in this era, particularly for Russia and Japan. The map utilizes a variety of lines and colors to explain various phases of railroad construction: a double-black line for the completion of two tracks, a single black line for completion of one track, a red line for an established but only partially constructed railroad, and a dashed black line for a proposed (but still unbuilt) railroad. Several well-known Russian, Chinese, and Korean cities are shown on the map. These include Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok in Russia; Harbin, Mukden (present-day Shenyang), and Port Arthur (Lüshun) in China (Manchuria); and P'yongyang and Seoul in Korea. Black triangles signify the presence of Japanese troops in parts of northeastern China and Korea, reflecting the extensive military occupation by Japan following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5. In the 19th century, as the Qing Dynasty of imperial China weakened, both Russia and Japan sought to take advantage of China's waning power by expanding into areas of northeastern China and neighboring Korea. Russia forced China to cede territories north and east of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers in the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and in the Convention of Peking of 1860 and increased its influence in Manchuria from its base of operations in Harbin. Japan moved aggressively into China and Korea after victories in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and in the Russo-Japanese War. As Japan became ascendant in the region after 1905, it targeted Russian railroad interests and reengineered local rail networks to serve its own interests. This map was compiled from notes of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for use in a book on the Maritime Region of Russia (Primorskiy Kray, near Vladivostok). The map shows a scale at the bottom that utilizes the verst, a tsarist-era unit of distance equal to 1.07 kilometers. World Digital Library.
Skhematicheskai︠a︡ karta russkogo Dal'nego Vostoka
This map shows various administrative borders. Also noted on the map are gold-producing regions, Cossack settlements, railroads, permafrost borders, isotherms, annual precipitation, cities and villages, and railroad stations. Prilozhenie k knige P.D. Lezhnina "Dal'niĭ Vostok. Bogatstva Priamur'i︠a︡ i Zabaĭkal'i︠a︡". Original map at: Russian State Library Приложение к книге П.Д. Лежнина "Дальний Восток. Богатства Приамурья и Забайкалья".
Karta Sibirskogo krai︠a︡ s pokazaniem uchastkov, otkrytykh dli︠a︡ zaselenii︠a︡ v 1929 g.
The map shows the borders of oblasts and okrugs, railroads, and the resettlement districts of various earmarks. Original map at: Russian State Library
Obshchai︠a︡ karta raĭonov zh.d. Irkutsk-Bodaĭbo i Tulun"-Ust'-Kut-Bodaĭbo
The map shows various administrative borders. It also marks land that was long settled by peasants, native lands and lands of those resettled. Cities, villages and railroad stations are indicated along with planned and existing railroad lines. Setka geograficheskikh koordinat. Original map at: Russian State Library Сетка географических координат.