Birds-eye view of the elevated railroads and the parks and boulevards of Chicago
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Map of New York City, Brooklyn, and vicinity showing surface & elevated railroads in operation and proposed
Shows relief by hachures, drainage, parks, some buildings, names of property owners, streets, roads, and the railroads distinguished by line symbols.
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Map and guide of the elevated railroads of New York City
Outline map of Manhattan showing stations. Includes train schedule and list of points of interest.
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Taunton's citizens' and travelers' rapid transit map and time table of the Metropolitan and New York elevated railways : showing, on a new plan, the railways with up and down-town tracks ... ferries, etc., etc
Covers Manhattan south of 62nd Street. Also shows streetcar lines, trunk railroads, ferries, and piers. Title from panel. "Published Feb. 18, 1879, First Edition, 50,000." Includes notes and inset showing stations north of 59th Street. Text, station directory, table of running times, and advertisements on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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All elevated trains in Chicago stop at the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Station, only one on the Loop
C² 29397 U.S. Copyright Office Shows Rock Island ticket offices and stations, cable and electric street car system, and elevated system in the city. Title in Copyright record, v. 15, 1897: Birdseye view of portion of Chicago showing elevated railway system and Loop in connection with Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Stations. Includes indexes to points of interest and col. ill. of "Elevated station at the 'Rock Island' Van Buren St. station." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. PM3
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Gipsometricheskai︠a︡ karta Rossīĭskoĭ Imperīi : (opyt izobrazhenīi︠a︡ relʹefa Imperīi)
Relief and depths shown by gradient tints. Also shows railroads. Pulkovo (St. Petersburg) meridian. Includes table of extreme high elevations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In Russian. LC copy torn at edge, taped, inscribed in ink by the author in upper margin: The Congress Library, Washington D.C., from J. de Schokalsky in remembrance of 2 visits--1912.
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Map & profiles of the Vt. Central and Vt. and Canada Railroads
"May 1st 1848." Oriented with north toward the upper left. Relief shown by hachures. Includes 2 elevation profiles. Scale ca. 1:180,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 610/1; 650/3
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Cooke's new map of the state of North Carolina : constructed from actual surveys, private contributions & authentic public documents procured for the purpose under a special resolution of the General Assembly of the state
Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Includes: North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind -- Comparative elevations -- Table of heights of mountains etc. above the water and 3 profiles above lower neatline: Profile of the Western N.C. Railroad from Salisbury to the Tennessee line -- Profile of the North Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro to Salisbury -- Profile of the Atlantic & North Carolina R.R. Decorative border. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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Part of map of Washington City D.C. showing the track of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as originally constructed and as it now exists : also showing tracks along which the company might have built the road ... and the proposed paving of East Second Street by the corporation of Washington
Covers area bounded by A Street N.E./N.W., 3rd Street N.W., Florida Avenue, and 12th Street N.E. Also shows block numbers and elevations of block corners. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Brittle, lacking sections along edges, and mounted on cloth backing. Includes note and track profile. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault DCP
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Real estate map of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company between Washington, D.C., and Rockville, Md., and adjacent land holdings : from latest official authorities & actual surveys
Partial cadastral map showing owners' names and acreages of larger landholdings in districts adjacent to the B&O R.R. in Washington D.C. and Montgomery County (Md.). "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1890 by Francis R. Fava Jr. in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington." North oriented towards the upper left. Includes notes, "Profile of the Metropolitan Branch B. & O.R.R. ... showing distances from Washington D.C. and elevations," and advertisement for "T. Janney Brown, general agent." LC copy stamped on verso--"Gilbert Thompson." Sectioned in 4 sheets and mounted on 2 sheets of cloth. Annotated in ink--"With the compliments of Francis R. Fava Jr. C.E., January 1892." LC Railroad maps, 461 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP
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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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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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