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Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama
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Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama
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Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama
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Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama
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Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama
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White Hall historic building, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama
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A historic military commissary building at the Fort Smith National Historic Site in Fort Smith, a city in western Arkansas on the Oklahoma border
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In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Simon Celaya, praying compensation for rent of buildings and injuries thereto occupied by the military authorities of the United States, at Brownsville, Tex., during the years 1864, 1865, and 1866, after due consideration, submit this report
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[Historic Buildings of Salem]
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In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives, to accompany Bill H.R. 1242. The Committee have had before them the case of William Ivers, a citizen of the Territory of New Mexico, who claims to be paid by the Government $1,500 for the destruction of his building, rented by him to the Quartermaster's Department as a store-house for the public stores of the United States Army at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1862
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Map of the city of Washington : premium map for subscribers to the Real estate directory of Washington City published by E.F.M. Faehtz and Fred. W. Pratt : and containing buildings, railroads, sewers, watermains, fire plugs, etc
Cadastral topographic map showing lot and block numbers, "houses," and "shanties." Relief shown by contours. "Up to January 1st, 1874." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873 by J. Enthoffer ... at Washington." Includes "Table showing the width of streets [and] avenues." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy 1 fold-lined, torn, and trimmed. LC copy 2 shellacked and halved. 2 copies DCP
Image 2 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), December 26, 1903
THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that
Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), May 30, 1911
t j r s t The Everlasting Building Material If concrete is cheap it is not sood and if it is od it is not cheap Good brickwork has to be painted does not disintegrate or BR CK never Cement block as ordinar ily made is both unsight ly and unsafe as a build ing material and this fact should be made known to those wishing to build permanent homes crumble away all di does not stands Riverside Brick Manufacturing Co Hattiesburg Office Ross Building Telephones 290 Yard Riverside Telephone 726 mates rot Miss I I TRIALS OF A REPORTER The newspaper reporter has a very difficult duty to perform when it comes to writing an account of anything wherein the slightest deviation from the course that parties on either side think should ba pursued may bring censure upon him It is not so difficult to write the account accurately if the m I j Ikf V Æm jvul S m l FT 1 Y ft I 1 I l Helpfor All Andrew Carnegie once suggested as an epitaph for hit own tombstone what he said w8 the secret of his success Here lies a man who surrounded himself with