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Signed on verso: Millard Fillmore. 1866. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
General-content map of Europe showing states, railroads, waterways, roads (postal routes), and ferries. Does not cover northern Scandinavia. Prime meridian: Paris. Signed in ink script on verso: Millard Fillmore, February 12, 1866. LC copy imperfect: Cover removed from verso, missing, sheet sectioned to 32 panels to enable folding. Includes 2 statistical tables (metric conversion), table of metric distance comparisons (for various countries), and key to abbreviations. Andriveau-Goujon paper advertisement label affixed to verso on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Covers New York State and parts of adjacent states/provinces. Also shows canals. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored in red to emphasize railroads in service/abuilding/proposed and in blue to emphasize state lines. LC copy imperfect: Sectioned to 20 panels to enable folding, mounted on cloth backing, hemmed at edges with pink fabric. Signed in ink script at upper right: Millard Fillmore 1861; and on verso on cloth backing: No. 107. Millard Fillmore. May 15, 1861. Paper label with inked script attached to verso: New York rail roads 1861. No. 107. LC Railroad maps, 265 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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.
"Third edition. This is the official State Department folio. Printed ... circa January 3, 1863"--Cf. Eberstadt, C. Lincoln's Proclamation, 1950, page 28.
Relief shown by hachures. Includes text. Includes "Allentown" in Pennsylvania and "Camp Joseph E. Johnston" in Florida. To the right of the copyright statement: 8-1'-17. In lower right corner: 5095. In lower left corner within text box: 595. Historical text, illustrations (some color), lists of camps, stations, and barracks, and publisher's list on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Company organizational diagrammatic map drawn in the form of a branching tree that identifies in its branches all of the functional offices of the railroad by name. Shows railroad trackage branches as straight lines radiating from the central office of the "Gen'l Sup't". The branches extend from New York (State) westward thru northern New Jersey and northern Pennsylvania to Lake Erie. "Published by permission." LC copy imperfect: Use-worn, brittle, fold-lined, torn, missing sections along the margins. LC copy annotated in ink handwriting in lower margin: 18[4?]. Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. May 30,1856. Includes text, note, legend of symbols, and statistical table of "Number of offices and employés classed". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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.
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.
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.
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.' In pencil on verso: Geological, Va. ... [illegible] and red & white sticker: 138. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Post-road/railroad map of Central Europe (Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Hungary, and adjacent regions). The component German states/principalities and adjacent countries are shown in distinctive border coloration. Title from map-content area (recto). When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 24 panels. Handwritten (cursive script) inked identification statement on paper label affixed to cloth backing (verso): German post and rail in 1856, Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. LC sheet imperfect: Use-worn, LC accession rubber-stamp in map-content area (top recto), lead-pencil annotations on cloth backing (verso). Includes notes, indexed table titled "Statistische Uebersicht der 38 deutschen Bundesstaaten", railroad distance table, waterways distance table, and key to abbreviations. Five paper panels with statistical tables, panel with spa/health-resort locations, panel with 6 trans-Alpine road profiles, and cover panel affixed to cloth backing (verso). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy annotated to show "M. Fillmore's route Sep. & Oct 1855". Each sheet sectioned into 9 and mounted on cloth, folding to 20 x 14 cm. Signed on sheet 1 on verso above title label: Millard Fillmore bot. at Frankfort $2.25, Sept. 3 1855. In addition to the title label and two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso of page 2. Legend in French pasted on verso of page 3. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend and parallel title.
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.
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.
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.
"Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1914 by Real Estate Map Pub. Co." "Published in two volumes." Includes index. Copy imperfect: Looseleaf, portfolio, title page torn and repaired, fragile, torn along fold lines in center of other pages. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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.