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Annand, George
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Pictorial map of the Aintree Race Course, in bird's-eye view. Printed in black and white. Relief illustrated pictorially. Includes a compass rose and decorative cartouche and border. Descriptive text throughout, e.g.: "The Water Jump" 15 ft. wide over all with spruce fence 2 ft. 6 in. high. With vignette of running horse and jockey. Map is 23 x 55 cm, on sheet 27 x 59 cm.
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[Mitchell, Alva Scott, May, Elizabeth Paige, Colby, Beatrice Adelaide]
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Colored bird's-eye view, showing Wheaton College. Includes college seals, as well as vignettes of significant buildings and figures within the college history. Descriptive text throughout. Decorative border and title cartouche. Dotted with mythical creatures, such as a sea serpent with a cat's head in the lake. Four directions labeled in margins of map, in Latin. Map 46 x 51 cm, on sheet 55 x 74 cm. (Date, publisher, and place of publication estimated.)
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Spilhaus, M. Whiting (Margaret Whiting)
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Pictorial map of North America, in chromolithographed bird's-eye view. Shows cities, topography and drainage, as well as natural features (e.g.: Death Valley), natural resources and representative figures, such as indigenous peoples. Relief illustrated pictorially. Historical text throughout, e.g.: Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs ... Includes vignettes of historical figures and events. Decorative border. With inset: North Pole. Map is 86 x 72, on sheet 104 x 79 cm. Cartographer Margaret Whiting Spilhaus was a South African author of several historical books concerned with the Age of Exploration and colonial history and produced a series of pictorial maps of continents.
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[Women's City Club of Boston, Gibney, Mary]
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Pictorial map of New England motor trails, illustrated by Mary Gibney. Cover of the guidebook published for the Women's City Club of Boston, lacks the text. Shows state boundaries, major cities, roads, bridges, agriculture, wooded areas, buildings, recreational areas and wildlife. Relief shown pictorially.
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The Whitney-Graham Co., Inc.
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[Town Crier Shop, Holliday, C.W.]
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Uncolored pictorial map of the Cape Cod, Marthas Vineyard, and Nantucket. Title cartouche decorated with cod fish and sea horses. Shows roads, cities, coastal towns, forest and Native American settlements in the center. Includes illustrations of birds, ships and sea creatures. Decorative border vignettes featuring famous island scenery, buildings, ships, and light houses with explanatory text. Includes decorative compass rose oriented with the north to upper left. Date estimated.
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Shurtleff, Elizabeth
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Date estimated. A pictorial celestial map. Instructions under the title explain how to hold the map to identify the constellations in the night sky. With strong colors in the style of other Shurtleff pictorial maps. Another edition was published by the Graphic History Association in the same year (Worldcat). A folded version was accompanied by an envelope.
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[Boucher, Lucien, Air France]
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Pictorial map, designed by Lucien Boucher, the French artist known for his creative world maps for air France. Red lines showing Air France Routes to Spain, Mediterranean region, Africa, Greece and Asia Minor. Date estimated. Includes decorative compass rose.
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[Brightman, Robert, Gatechair, Robert, American Association of University Women. Elgin Branch]
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Colorful pictoria map, filled with drawings of historic sites and events. Shows major waterways, roads, railroads, agriculture, industry, major buildings, landmarks and people in various activities. Map borders by portraits of important people in the history of Elgin.
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China Navigation Company
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Color pictorial map of Yangtze River Valley, China on sheet 41x76. Shows the course of the Yangtze River from Hankow in the east up to Tiger Tooth in the west. Also shows roads, railroads, cities, towns, agricultural products, farms, industry and landmarks. Relief shown by shadings. Title supplied by cataloger. Date estimated.
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Medina, Miguel Gomez
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Colorful pictorial map, issued as postcard, by Miguel Gomez Medina, with mailing address panel and notes on verso. Published by Fischgrund Publishing Company, Mexico, Printed in Mexico by F. Litho Offset Sanchez, S.A. Date estimated. Showing illustrative historical drawings of points of interest, buildings, industry agriculture, music and recreation.
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McCormick & Co., Inc.
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Text about McCormick products..
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Wallingford, Daniel K.
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Date estimated.
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[Robert MacLehose & Company Limited, Kristen, Helene]
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Date estimated.
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Longview Chamber of Commerce
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Held Jr., John 1888-1931
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Date estimated.
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Zaidenberg, Arthur
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This is a rare map made by Zaidenberg and printed in Paris.
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[Hoerning, J., Teilhet]
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Date estimated.
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Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt, 1881-1953
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Pictorial map in black and white with decorative border. Includes coat of arms in color. Showing building, landmarks, streets,canals, roads, seaports and steamboats. Includes historical notes, texts and decorative title cartouche and compass rose.
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Waugh, Coulton
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This is the larger version of our other copy, 8624.000
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Paine, Paul M.
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Date estimated. Although only signed P.M.P., the author is Paul M. Paine.
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Cresp, Jean Honore
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Birds-eye view panoramic map of the coast of southern France from Toulon to Menton and Corsica, Covers French and Italian Alps. Shows major cities, rivers, roads, railroads, etc. Relief shown pictorially by shadings and spot heights. Date estimated.
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen
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Date estimated.
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[Logan, Herschel C., 1901-1987, American Association of University Women. Salina Branch.]
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Pictorial map of Kansas. Along the top and bottom margins are vignettes illustrating state historical events with explanatory captions. Shows county lines, major towns, rivers, landmarks. historic sites, people, activities, crops, animals, products of 1930s. It also traces the Pony Express Route through Atchison and Marysville, and labels the Santa Fe and Chisholm Trails. Relief shown pictorially.
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Reynold's Printing Co.
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Pictorial map of Martha's Vineyard and Elizabeth Islands celebrating the Vineyard's Tercentenary in 1930, depicts the island's history with drawings and explanatory text. Shows beaches, boats, lighthouses, ships, boats, historic buildings and landmarks. Includes a decorative title cartouche with compass rose at the center.
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[Dreyer, Ernst Adolf, Petner, Werner]
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Date estimated.
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Title Insurance and Trust Company (1893-1968)
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Color map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows Sierra Nevada mountains run along the top, and in the bottom left corner is the Pacific Ocean. Between these features is the boundaries of the old ranchos. A compass rose is at left oriented with the north to upper left margin. Shows roads, drainage, etc.
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[Sukhum, S.S.S.R. Glavnoe Kurortnoe Upravlenie]
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Color pictorial map, mounted on linen. Shows a ship and Russian Shipping routes from Moscow via Black Sea to Aegeon Sea. Includes place names, explanation and shipping routes shown in red lines.
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[Haverty, Helen, Adams, Katherine Payne]
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Manuscript hand colored pictorial map, mounted on heavy cardboard. Date estimated. Shows rivers, buildings, landmarks, and agricultural products. Includes noted and dated historical scenes, and figures. Title cartouche in upper center decorated with flags, and compass rose on upper right corner decorated with the State Seal of Virginia. We assume this was intended for eventual publication but we can find no record of a published version. Katherine Payne Adams did produced a published map in 1955 titled "Virginia, 1602-1622 : showing the most remarqueable parts thus named in the Ancient Records."
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Stevens, Hugo
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Pictorial map of the peninsula between the James and York Rivers in Virginia and three historically significant colonial Virginia towns, focusing on the period between the establishment of the first English settlement in Jamestown in 1607 and the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown, which ended the Revolutionary War in 1781. (The Battle of Williamsburg in 1862 during the Civil War. Illustrations depict landmark buildings, events, scenes from colonial life and portraits of historical figures such as Captain John Smith, Chief Powhatan and George Washington. The cartouche is decorated with a picture of a colonial soldier with clipper ships in the background. Includes the state seal of Virginia, its colonial coat of arms, and a compass rose. Date estimated.
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[Lufkin, Richard, Boston Elevated Railway Company]
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Pictorial maps, with extensive index on verso, including listing some 38 theaters (which are numbered on the map). Shows streets, parks, city blocks, Rapid Transit Lines, Surface and Underground Trolley Lines and Bus Routes, city landmarks, including hotels, Fenway Park, Tufts Medical and Dental School, government buildings, etc. Colorful border at upper and lower edge is a series of vignette bird's eye view of Boston: top left features several of the buildings of the Harvard campus, at lower right is Pleasure Bay, Commonwealth and Fish Pier.
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[White, Ruth Taylor, Chilson, B.D.]
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Uncolored pictorial map, 37x29 printed both sides, on sheet 53.5x37. Date estimated. Shows scenic areas and landmarks. lava flows with dates, roads, and trails. flowers and plants, Waiakea Mill, Coconut Island, Port of Hilo, Hilo High School, points of interest, boats and fish in the ocean. Includes notes, compass rose and distant chart form Hilo. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: Street map of Hilo, scale 1:9,750. In lower left corner is "B.D. Chilson, Del.
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[White, Ruth Taylor, Chilson, B.D.]
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Uncolored pictorial map, 37x29 printed both sides, on sheet 53.5x37. Date estimated. Shows scenic areas and landmarks. lava flows with dates, roads, and trails. flowers and plants, Waiakea Mill, Coconut Island, Port of Hilo, Hilo High School, points of interest, boats and fish in the ocean. Includes notes, compass rose and distant chart form Hilo. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: Street map of Hilo, scale 1:9,750. In lower left corner is "B.D. Chilson, Del.
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Taylor, Alfred E.
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Hand color pictorial map with decorative border, published by Pratts, a petroleum company (which became Esso). Taylor designed many of these decorative maps for Pratts Oil showing the inspiration of historic maps. Shows the route between London in the lower right to Newcastle on Tyne in the upper left. Features a decorative cartouche and compass, literary quotes and drawings of major buildings and places of interest. "A.E. Taylor '30" printed at lower left corner. Includes notes.
Author
Wallingford, Daniel K.
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This is a variant copy published in Chicago, instead of New York as is our other copy (8203.000). Date estimated. Colored humorous map of the United States. Relief shown pictorially. New England is shown oversized relative to the entire country, and the eastern half of Massachusetts, including Boston and Cape Cod, are drawn at even larger proportions. The importance of Cape Cod is emphasized by the inclusion of an image of a codfish over the cartouche. The Midwest labeled “Western Prairies” and “Texas,” and a few cities clustered around Great Lakes and Mississippi River. The cities of Omaha, Denver, Reno and Houston are placed near the Pacific Coast into California. The Mid Atlantic and South are also blank except for Florida and a few major cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond and Palm Beach. An inset map of “Boston and Environs” shows various actual suburbs. Includes list of universities and texts.
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Lufkin, Raymond
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Color pictorial map. Title continued, "Also Containing here and there many items of historical interest and also with a fancy cartouche which gives some idea of the hand labor on houses of the time". Decorative border depicts various events, some historical with descriptive text. Includes text: " The Governor removed thither : wither also the frame of the Governors house was also carried ; where people began to build their houses against the winter : and this place was called Boston".
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Wallingford, Daniel K.
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Date estimated. Colored humorous map of the United States. Relief shown pictorially. New England is shown oversized relative to the entire country, and the eastern half of Massachusetts, including Boston and Cape Cod, are drawn at even larger proportions. The importance of Cape Cod is emphasized by the inclusion of an image of a codfish over the cartouche. The Midwest labeled “Western Prairies” and “Texas,” and a few cities clustered around Great Lakes and Mississippi River. The cities of Omaha, Denver, Reno and Houston are placed near the Pacific Coast into California. The Mid Atlantic and South are also blank except for Florida and a few major cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond and Palm Beach. An inset map of “Boston and Environs” shows various actual suburbs. Includes list of universities and texts.
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