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Library of Congress1897

Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va. 1897

"This panoramic map shows Elkins, West Virginia, as it appeared in 1897. The city was developed as a railroad hub in the 1880s by two entrepreneurs and politicians: Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) and Stephen Benton Elkins (1841-1911), with the city named after the latter. Both men served terms representing West Virginia in the U.S. Senate. The map shows the city of Elkins along the Tygart's Valley River, with two bridges crossing the river--one for rail (adjacent to Railroad Avenue) and one for pedestrians and other transport (Davis Avenue). A train is seen on the far side of town, traveling on the West Virginia Central Railroad. The railroad enabled the success of industry involving the extraction of natural resources such as coal and timber. The index at the bottom of the map indicates points of interest, including the railroad hub, major industrial facilities, shops, schools, churches (Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist Colored, and United Brethren), and the opera house. The panoramic map was a cartographic form in popular use to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as bird's-eye views or perspective maps, these works are representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. This map is by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842-1922), one of the most prolific makers of panoramic maps. Fowler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and fought and was wounded in the American Civil War. After working for an uncle who was a photographer, in 1870 he established his own panoramic map firm. Over the course of a long career, Fowler made panoramic maps of cities in 21 states and parts of Canada." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1870

Map showing the Port Royal Railroad and its connections

Map of the southeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network. In 1871 the line was in progress of completion. One of Colton's typical maps published for an individual railroad company to promote industry and settlement in rich mining or agricultural areas. (Entry 533)

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Library of Congress1926

Image 11 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), August 13, 1926

The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 3E The Newspaper uAfi r By DAN R CONWAY T HE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the substantial of It ft more these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this coun try ever knew was the metropolis of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and enterprise have ac complished in the last sixty years It

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Library of Congress1926

Image 7 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), August 13, 1926

rjp IkT _ itw The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana 1 11 lx eWSUaPer Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 11111 WWW num i By DAN R CONWAY THE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the more substantial of these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this cun try ever knew It was the metropolis ft Ww Daa R Conway of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 10, 1916

daily KENNEBEC JOURNAL Entered at the Augusta Post Office a iSecond class mall matter ESTABLISHED 1825 Kaaotlee whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Company Publishers Augusta Maine Monday July 10 1916 Republican Nominations FOR PRESIDENT CHARLES EVANS HUGHES VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES W FAIRBANKS GOVERNOR CARL E MILLIKEN U S SENATOR Frederick Hale REPRESENTATIVES TO CON GRESS 1st DistLouis B Goodall 2nd DistWallace H White Jr 3rd DistJohn A Peters 4th DistFrank E Guernsey STATE AUDITOR Roy L Ward well A Misguided Friend Editor Kennebec Journal The Journal editorial of June 27 entitled the Right Course at Last has been read with considerable surprise by a wide circle of manufacturers and railroad men The editorial in question claims to reflect the publicity attitude of the newspapers to ward American industry In the present wage controversy between the railroads and the brotherhoods for example you say no safe dependence can be placed on the claims of either side and in the public interests you think the contestants that is to say these conflicting and unre

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Library of Congress1951

Tekhnicheskiĭ proekt zheleznodorozhnoĭ linii Chum-Salekhard-Igarka. Tom IV. Prodol'nyĭ inzhenerno-geologicheskiĭ profil'. Uchastok stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Labytnangi - stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Nadym. 1-i︠a︡ chast'

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.

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Library of Congress1951

Tekhnicheskiĭ proekt zheleznodorozhnoĭ linii Chum-Salekhard-Igarka. Tom IV. Prodol'nyĭ inzhenerno-geologicheskiĭ profil'. Uchastok stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Labytnangi - stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ Nadym. 2-i︠a︡ chast'

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.

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