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Library of Congress1889

The Man of Commerce.

"The Man of Commerce" is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889 by the Land & River Improvement Company of Superior, Wisconsin, the map promotes Superior as a transportation hub and shows the routes of 29 railroads across the United States. The outline map of North America is superimposed by a cutaway diagram of the human body. The map's metaphor makes West Superior "the center of cardiac or heart circulation." The railways become major arteries. New York is "the umbilicus through which this man of commerce was developed." The explanatory notes conclude: "It is an interesting fact that in no other portion of the known world can any such analogy be found between the natural and artificial channels of commerce and circulatory and digestive apparatus of man." Use of the human body as a cartographic metaphor dates back at least to the 16th century, to the anthropomorphic map of Europe as a queen in Sebastian Münster's Cosmography (1570). This map may be the earliest application of this metaphor to North America. The cartographer was A.F. McKay, who in 1889 briefly served as the editor of the Superior Sentinel newspaper. The map was engraved by Rand McNally. The American Geographical Society Library acquired the map in 2009, aided in part by the Map Society of Wisconsin. The only other known copy of this map is in a private collection.

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Library of Congress1902

History of memorial bridge project. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Memorial Bridge of the Grand Army of the Republic, a recommendation as to the laying of the corner stone during the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, in October. April 17, 1902. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1895

Image 1 of Foster's daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.), December 20, 1895

DAILY DEMOCRAT LEADS ALL OTHERS FOLLOW GEO JFOSTER CO PROPRIETORS EANDY EAaANDY CANDY Buy your Candy of us we will make it right before your eyes on and after Saturday noon a good suggestion we think dont buy old candy Get it hot when youcan We give a ticket with every pound and you may get the Beautiful China Dinner Set And the Influence It Wields Over the Nations Affairs FIELD OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Made Up of Worlds Brightest Literary Talent NEW YoRK Dec 20Oratory by gifted orators men prominent in pub lic and commercial life was the order of the evening at the American commerce banquet held at Delmonicos tonight The subject Our Merchant Marine was handled in a masterly manner by Hon Williamm P Frye The American Business Man by General Horace Por ter and American Commerce by Hon Don M Dickinsen in a speech bristling with interesting statistics General Charles H Taylor of the Boston Globe responded to the toastThe American Newspaper General Taylor spoke in part as follows A New Englander well may respond to this toast without apology since the first eat journalist of America Benjamin grranklin was born and baptized only around the cormer

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Library of Congress1920

Railway Map of Jamaica.

This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroads and rail stations of Jamaica, at that time a crown colony within the British Empire. Also shown are the island's main roads and its three counties--Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey--and their borders. The scale of the map is in statute miles (1 mile = 1.61 kilometers). The Western Jamaica Connecting Railway was built in 1845. Running from Kingston to Angels, a distance of some 23 kilometers, it was the first railroad constructed anywhere outside Europe or North America. The Jamaican railroad system was expanded throughout the 1900s, mainly for the purpose of bringing sugar and other products to the ports of Kingston, Port Antonio, and Montego Bay. Expansion of the railway in the late-19th century opened up the interior of the country to farming and the establishment of banana and citrus plantations. The map is held in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS). After approximately 300 years of British rule, Jamaica gained its independence in 1962. It joined the OAS in 1969.

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Library of Congress1920

Railroad Map of British Honduras.

This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroad network of British Honduras (present-day Belize). Under the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, the Spanish Empire granted Britain the right to harvest timber in the region between the Hondo and Belize Rivers. In 1862 the crown colony of British Honduras was established. Apart from British Guiana, it was the only British possession on the mainland of Latin America. The colony was important to Britain chiefly as a source of logwood and, later, mahogany. The railroads shown on the map are all quite small and were used primarily to transport lumber, sugar cane, and bananas to the coast. A proposed longer line from the port of Belize to Guatemala is indicated but was never built. The map also shows the colony's six administrative districts and the small number of towns and cities. British Honduras achieved full independence in 1981, becoming the country of Belize.

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Library of Congress1925

Railroad Map of Trinidad.

This map, produced by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce in 1925, shows the railroad network of Trinidad. The main rail line in Trinidad was the Trinidad Government Railway, which originally was built in 1876 to connect the major city of Port of Spain with Arima. It later was extended to other inland towns. In addition to railroad lines and tramways, the map shows towns and counties and county boundaries. Originally claimed for Spain by Christopher Columbus in 1498, Trinidad was seized by Britain in 1797. With its much smaller sister island of Tobago, it became a single British colony in 1889. In the 19th century, the economy was dominated by agriculture, chiefly the production of sugarcane and cacao. Oil was discovered in 1857 and the petroleum industry developed from the 1860s onward. The colony of Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962.

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Library of Congress1911

Property map of the Canal Zone showing property belonging to the United States of America, Panama R. R. Co., and lands claimed by private persons

"This large, detailed, map is from the collection of the Panama Canal Zone Library, which was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1978. This collection contains various maps, plans, and diagrams detailing the history of Panama and the construction of the Panama Canal over the ten-year period of 1904 to 1914. According to a note on the map, the "map shows the land in the Canal Zone that has been set apart for all Governmental purposes in the Canal Zone, to date, and whether the land belongs to the United States of America, the Panama Railroad Company, or to private individuals. It further indicates whether these reservations for Governmental purposes have been made for Canal Works, Fortifications, Lighting, Town sites, Reservoirs, Watersheds, or Miscellaneous purposes ... ." Colored markings on the map further subdivide U.S. lands into those acquired by treaty, by purchase, or from the French. France had initiated work on a canal across the isthmus in 1879, but the project stalled. Panama gained independence from Colombia in 1903 and the United States acquired from Panama the rights to build a canal, as well as bought the assets of the defunct French canal construction company. This map formed part of submissions to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce by Frank Feuille, head of the Department of Law of the Isthmian Canal Commission, at Ancon in the Canal Zone on December 22, 1911, and January 26, 1912." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1901

WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 30, 1911

Exports of Raisins From the United States Washington D C Nov 27 1911 More than one million dollars worth of raisins were exported from the United States in the last fiscal year the quanti ty 18 12 million pounds being tar in ex cess of the total exported in any earlier year The imports during the year amounted to only 2 12 million pounds against 10 million pounds in 1900 and as high as 50 million pounds in certain years prior to the development of production in the United States Comparing 1911 with 1900 the figures of the Bureau of Statistics Department of Commerce and Labor show that exports grew from 2 12 million pounds to over 18 12 million pounds and their value from 140000 to 1069000 During the same period im ports of raisins fell from 10 13 million pounds in 1900 to 2 12 million in 1911 and their value from 531000 to 237 lW 1I1C laigcot CApui IU11U1I un iuioiuh recorded in any year prior to 1911 was that of 1907 a little over 9 million pounds or less than half that of 1911 while the largest importation of raisins on record is that of 1884

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