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Library of Congress1879

In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1744.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the resolutions of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, in favor of an appropriation for continuing and completing the history of the Battle of Gettysburg, by John B. Batchelder, and the letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in answer to the Senate resolution of March 4, 1874, information concerning the data from which the positions of the troops were added to the engineer's maps of the Gettysburg battlefield, recently published, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report

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Library of Congress1866

Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the punishment of traitors; the total abolition of slavery; approving the measures of the administration of Abraham Lincoln; thanks to the soldiers for their patriotism, and the aid societies, sanitary and Christian commissions; and denouncing the treatment of Union soldiers in rebel prisons. January 5, 1866. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), April 20, 1961

Stye IGextttgfmt Ahuerltaer Fighting Communism The John Birch Society Is Not The Answer A number of readers have asked about the John Birch Society an organization in the national limelight because of its announced intention of impeaching United Spates Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren It is reported to he a semisecret society organized on a nationwide basis with the avowed purpose of fighting Communism The Blue Book of the Birch Society says it is a monolithic body which will operate under completely authoritative levels at all times It regards the present republican form of government in the United States as being inefficient in combating Communism and regards democracy in government or organization as a deceptive phrase a weapon of dema goguery and a perrennial fraud The Attorney General of the United States about ten days ago responded to questions about the society by saying he thought it more humorous than any thing else and that it probably did more harm than good In Mississippi last week the or ganization was again spotlighted when William T Clark a Jackson businessman described as head of the John Birch Society of Jackson spear headed a campaign to oust the Rev Edward H

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Library of Congress1918

[Middle East]

"This map of western Asia produced by the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York dates from the period immediately after World War I. A similar map in the collection of the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is thought to have been made by the AGS for the use of the American delegation to the peace negotiations in Versailles in 1918-19. The map shows Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), and Afghanistan. Iraq is still shown as part of Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). The League of Nations mandates for Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, adopted at the peace conference, are not yet shown. Qatar is indicated as El Katr; Doha and Wakrah are shown as Dohah and Wakra. India (i.e., British India) includes present-day Pakistan. The Soviet Union, with its constituent republics in Central Asia (Russian Turkistan), has not yet been formed. The map has three scales: miles, kilometers, and Russian versts." World Digital Library.

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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 Congress1961

Image 4 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 25, 1961

JACKSON ADVOCATE PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON MISSISSIPPI A Member Of The Audit Bureau Circulations Make all checks payable to the Jackson Advocate Address 406 North Farish Street Phone Office21617 Phone Society Editor21213 In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and develop ment we can be together as the handBooker T Washington Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson Miss July 13 1946 under Act of Congress March 13 1879 PERCY GREENEEditor and Publisher FRANCES REED GREENE Society Editor Subscription Rates One Year 400 Six Months 260 by mail anywhere in the United States and to Service Men overseas Foreign One Year 600 Six Months 360 SUBSCRIPTION RATES All Subscriptions Due And Payable In Advance ONE YEAR 400 SIX MONTHS 250 INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS Inc National Advertising Representatives 145 Fifth Ave New York City Murray Hill 25452 National Negro Newspaper Week March 19 to 26 COME let us sing of the Negro Press Sing of its courage its trials its success Sing of its fight for the right waged so long In defense of our people who suffer much wrong

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