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Map of the western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stage routes, railroads completed and projected. Main lines in heavy black.
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Detailed map of southern United States from Cincinnati, Ohio, to northern Florida. Shows drainage, the Ohio River railroad system, cities and towns, county boundaries.
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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.
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Republican J ournal Supplement VOLUME 59_ BELFAST MAINE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 1887 NUMBER 45 CHAT FROM WASHINGTON GOSSIP ABOUT MEN AND THINGS AT THE CAPITAL Frank Hattons New PaperGossip About Robert P PorterBancroft and Cor coran ComparedSome Newspaper Cos ipA Sensation Which ailed Special Correspondence Washington Nov 8It was tho hour in tho afternoon at which the great government departments vomit forth their mass of work ing humanity Crowds of men and women 1 mured by tho thousands out of tlio cavernous jaws of tho United States treasury Tho maws of the state war and navy building vcro black with tho human stream and tho clerks of tho attorney generals office wore leaving their department for their homes Thcaveuuo between Seventeenth street and the Higgs house was black with people and BANCROFT AS A PEDESTRIAN ft was the liveliest hour of the clay in Wash ington Just at this time clown the avenue and through this moving throng walked a straight old man He was six foot tall and as thin as a devils darning needle but his flesh apjiearcd to Ik as solid ns jerked beef and his slop was a springy one lie wore a tall silk hat
Shows transatlantic cables, steam and sailing routes, currents, and the Sargasso Sea; major existing and proposed railroads in the United States and Canada, Chagres Railway across Panama. Relief shown by contours. Annotated in ink: Black's General Atlas - 1873. Rubber-stamped: 626888 N. 41. Includes travel times and distances for various routes, dates of cables. In lower right margin: 39A.
Cloth map. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. In lower left corner: "The Wells Missionary Map Co., 3612 Prairie Avenue, Chicago." Pen-and-ink, pencil, crayon, and watercolor; place names mechanically printed in black ink. In upper right corner: "III." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.