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"Serial No. 114-119." Shipping list no.: 2016-0130-P. Also available on the Internet as a PDF file. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
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.
North sheet: 501062 (540226). South sheet: 501732 (540246). Shows railroads. Scale 1:2,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
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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.
uktte Gives Way to Pool at AixLeBains tiling casino at Aix which is leased by the Y M C A the me of skill has replaced the French game of chance They the Yankee soldier to come to Aix but one taste of Y and he had to be hired to stay away THE T SOUGHT SERVICE NOT FAME SAYS GEORGE W PERKINS War Work Finance Committee returns home and fully on monumental and efficient organization d by Y M C A for service to A E F fPkins or iNew York finance committee of Iouncil of the Y M turned from Europe over four months in ugh investigation of by the Y M C A ins report is an im of tlte prodigious 1 by the great organi nions in the war land ami friends of the As well feel that its big i nr Jn his summary I ribute could be paid to Y M C A than that iig paid by the Army either taking over or iing in the work of ularging the activities e Y M C A at the work in Europe a ice was signed it was nor practical to rs at military
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
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.
"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.
Between 1880 and 1915, the Argentine railroad network expanded from 1,388 miles (2,234 kilometers) to 22,251 miles (35,809 kilometers) in length, making it the longest on the continent of South America and the eighth longest in the world. Railroads played a key role in economic development and national consolidation and made possible Argentina's emergence as a major exporter of wheat, beef, and other products. The most important railroads were owned and built by British companies, which were granted concessions by the Argentine government because of their technical expertise and their ability to raise large sums on the London market to finance the construction. This 1911 map, issued by the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Company of Buenos Aires and London, shows the country's main rail lines. Inset maps show the denser networks in the regions of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and Bahia Blanca. Most of the British-owned lines adopted the broad-gauge, 5 foot 6 inch (1.68 meter) standard, wider than the track used in most other parts of the world, including Europe and North America. Other lines used the narrow gauge of 3 foot 3.27 inches (1 meter wide), or the 4 foot 8.5 inch (1.44 meter) standard gauge.
Intensive railroad development took place in Argentina between 1880 and 1916, a period of rapid economic growth and national consolidation. The railroads made possible Argentina's emergence as a major exporter of wheat, beef, and other products. The most important railroads were owned and built by British companies, which were granted concessions by the Argentine government because of their technical expertise and their ability to raise large sums on the London market to finance the construction. This 1899 map, issued by the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway Company, of London, shows the country's main rail lines. The inset map at the upper left shows the dense network in and around the capital city and main port of Buenos Aires. Most of the British-owned lines adopted the broad-gauge, 5 foot 6 inch (1.68 meter) standard, wider than the track used in most other parts of the world, including Europe and North America. Other lines used the narrow gauge of 3 foot 3.27 inches (1 meter wide), or, as indicated in the note on the map pertaining to the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, the 4 foot 8.5 inch (1.44 meter) standard gauge.
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.
FRANK W GOWEN Frank W Gowen widely known in temperance work and as a very active business man left Waterville last week to locate in Southern California Mr Gowen has been one of the most active workers in Maine for Prohibition by voice and pen and from a boy an earnest Good Templar in which organization he became very prominent He has held high office in this order in Maine also in the Supreme Lodge of the world having been Supreme Lecturer and organizer and visited many States in the Union in its interest also Canada and only a few years ago was sent to Europe twice in succession by the Maine Good Templars to represent them in the worlds sessions of the order Mr Gowen has also been engaged in the insurance business for many years and it is understood that he will engage in the same business in Cali fornia He is a gentleman of dis tinguished presence and will be missed in Maine but all of his friends throughout the State will wish him suc cess in his business undertaking on the r acuu tuasi COST OF LIVING THE SAME TODAY AS FORTY YEARS AGO In the
I amactt 1 Newspapermen Who Cover Foreign Embassies in Search of Information on War MovesHow News Is Received and Handed OutWireless Messages to Ambassadors Sometimes T ransmitted More Speedily Than Ordinary News Matter on Account of Rigid Censorship in Europe fP f3 ASHINGTON ha f an aual zone o iLTjf I European war T V fltf I is true that n Im I hostile armies op VQ I erate therein anc I that the zone ii Vf I as yct free rori I y I the shriek ol I shells and the bel aV azr V V guns but there it an alert and active corps of war cor respondents operating in this territory and it is through their activitiei that many important messages having to do with the checkerboard movei upon the war ground across the Atlantic have been given to the public some times many hours in advance of th censored and obstructed message which too often snails its way over th commercial cables Washingtons war zone is widelj scattered It is comprised of manj bits of property which in the eyes ol international law if not in the sighi of astute and literal geographers an really bits
THE ANACONDA STANDARD PUSLISHED EVERY MORNING IN THE WEEK EXCEPT MONDAY The Offcial Paper of Deer Lodge County altvwhel by earnr or mall t see delles a lmr thrcc dober a qmlurr r oae ddiar a meoMU THI STrN DM1RWD to the ly da ewpaper with tlergmaphk dt pHeein l nIer uli r y It prm mor tirapllle mew ths sanyor newspaper l Momltaa Correpsieasee anwl buinween ktter should 1 atdrwemi to THE STANDARD Corset of H and Third streects aAcudam Montaam FRIDAY MARCH 14 I The lacreasing importation of water for beptismal purposes from the Holy land will doubtles suggest to some enterprisang Yankee the project of starltg a water canning factory on the beaks of the Jordan How bath the military glory of Francs departed when she is content to fight the poor old king of Dahomey and his thaae warriors Thespirit of Bona parte meut kick itself in mortification for the country that once made Europe tremble Chief Justice Fuller stubbotrnly re fues to shave off his moustache al though it is said the associate Justices have advised him to make the sacrifce in the name of dignity and impressive ness The chief justice is evidently keeping
The Wars of the Princess De Sagan In Emeperor William II of Germany the shrewd Princess de Sagan encoun ters a foeman worthy of her kill and of this dispute all Europe s talking It is announced by the German kaiser that he 1 will not permit the da Sagan inheritance founded y a Sagan in the principality of that manor in Silesia to pass into the hands of the French v fe of the decrepit prince who was at one time the acknowl edged Beau Brummel of all France These German estates are of vast ex tent They arc valued at between 2000 000 and 3000000 and produce an annual rental of about 100000 The emperor can do as he likes legally The estates are held as a gift of the crown under an old law and William has power to recognize any heir he may choose That heir may ultimately be the Princess of Fuersten berg I Jeanne Alexandrine de Sagan is un questionably a remarkable woman i For a matter of thirty odd years she has reigned a queen in exclusive Parisian circles despite the stain upon her fathers name and her own unconventional life j She
The steamship El Sol on her last trip from New York to New Orleans made the run between the bars on the ocean and gulf course in four days and twentyone hours the quickest on record She ran from Eads Jetties to New Orleans wharf in sevenl hours making six teen miles an hour against the cur rent a speed equal to that of the great R E Lee when she made her famous run from New Orleans to Cairo and St Louis in July 1870 now nearly twentyone years ago It costs one of the swiftest ocean racers 85000 to make a round trip voyage from Europe to America and return and the coal expense is from 15000 to 18000 A Womder Worker Mr Frank Huffmao a young man of Burlingtdn Ohio states that he had been under the care of two prominent physicians and used their treatment until he was not able to get around They pronounced his case to be Consumption and in curable He was persuaded to try Dr Kings New Discovery for Con sumption Coughs and Colds and at that time was not able to walk across the street without resting He found before he