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Map by ADC - Alexandria Drafting Company. UNC is the oldest public university in the United States; by extension Chapel Hill is among the oldest 'college towns.' Today, Chapel Hill and the adjoining former / gentrified mill town of Carrboro have a combined population of around 80,000, forming one of the three points on the 'triangle' of the Research Triangle Region, a greater urban area of over 1.5 million people.
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Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Maps - Specially Prepared for STANLEY GIBBONS LTD, 391 Strand, London, W.C. 2., G.W. Bacon Co. Ltd. ~ 1936 1954 K_6
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Map by Rand McNally. African nations had not yet gained independence, but the countries of Southeast Asia had, which would date this map to some point between 1950 and 1955.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Map by Geographia Maps. Post-partition. Goa, Daman and Diu were still Portuguese. Certain Indian films, musical composers, and novels are favorites of mine...the cultural richness of India has gone global, even (belatedly) making a powerful impression here in the USA. The Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray is one of my heroes...
Map by Hall Directory Co. Published for a magazine distributor. The thin, dashed red line running generally north-south on the far right side of the pic is the proposed route of what was first constructed as Interstate 35W, which was changed to Interstate 135 in the late 1970s.
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Map by AAA. Of the US Highways shown on this map, only one - 101 - is still signed. 101 originally ended at the Mexican border, in San Ysidro, but was truncated to its' current southern end in Downtown Los Angeles.
US Route 66 was decommissioned in the mid-1980s; it originally ran from Santa Monica to Chicago. Remnant sections of 66 still exist, and long portions of the original route are still in existance, and in some states (Arizona, Oklahoma, and Illinois) are signed as State Route 66.
US Route 99, which originally ran from Calexico, CA (on the Mexican border, in the Imperial Valley) to the Canadian border northwest of Bellingham, WA. 99 was first truncated to a southern endpoint just north of the "Grapevine" on the new I-5 freeway. 99 was later decommissioned entirely (in 1964) as I-5 was completed northward through California, Oregon, and Washington. Remnants of it still exist as State Route 99, in disconnected segments in each of those states.
US Route 6 was also altered - it originally ran from Long Beach, CA to Provincetown, MA. It's western endpoint was truncated to a junction with US Route 395, more than 200 miles north of L.A., and just north of the Mammoth Lakes area of California.
Likewise, US Route 70, which originally ran from Los Angeles to Cedar Island, North Carolina, was truncated - its' current western endpoint is Phoenix, Arizona.
Plan de la ville de Lille en 1857, avec tracé du chemin de fer et emplacement de la première gare intra muros.
Tallis World Map - "The World, Captain Cook Around The World"
Published by John Tallis 1851
This superb reproduction of the original steel plate engraving of "The World." from the ILLUSTRATED ATLAS by the noted English mapmaker John Tallis, is a fine example of mid-19th century pictorial mapmaking. Of particular interest are the exquisite vignettes of various cities and views from around the world. This hand coloured facsimile map is highly coveted by collectors for both its artistic excellence and cartographic accuracy. Each vignette represents observations taken in the area of the hemisphere directly across from the pictorial.
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Map by the General Drafting Company. Jim Crow-era map; note the anachronistic description of HBCU's on the map.
Old Map of Europe in 1740. Contributors John Senex in 1700.
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil, & Robt. Sayer in Fleetstreet.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Map by the Ohio department of Transportation. Maybe the most colorful state highway map I've ever seen. The western (west of Pittsburgh) segment of Interstate 76 was still called Interstate 80-S at the time. Most of the proposed Interstate 290 through the east side of Cleveland was never constructed.
Korean map from 1873.
This map can be viewed in more detail at the UWM Libraries Digital Collections:
Map by Rand McNally. Pre-WWII: Tannu Tuva, and Tibet were still independent, Korea and Tawian were Japanese possessions or colonies, Manchukuo (Manchuria) - the Japanese puppet state - was still in existance, and British India had yet to be partitioned into Burma (Myanmar), East Pakistan (Bangladesh), India, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, and West Pakistan (Pakistan).
This is a world map from a Korean atlas from the early 19th Century. Writing is in older Chinese characters.
The atlas can be view at the UWM Libraries digital collections: collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,908
Map by Hagstrom Maps, published for a bank - a bank whose logo seems to scream "We mean business - we're not playing around here!". The base map was originally drafted by MAPCO (Map Corporation of America) around 1955, and was updated by them until their bankruptcy in late 1964. Hagstrom purchased the base map materials, and kept the map updated into the mid-1970s.
Map by City Engineering Department, drafted for the Chamber of Commerce. The faintly dotted streets are alleys, which were city maintained, named and signed as recently as the 1960s (or in a very few instances, the 1990s), but were not named and fully mapped on this map due to scale /space concerns.
Most of those streets or alleyways were gradually abandoned or downloaded back to private maintainence between 1950 and 1990; a great number of them still exist (like the unsigned Garland Court, or Garland Alley, which separates Spirit Square and The Public Library, or #43, Dixie Alley, which runs behind the Wells Fargo Bldg between the 100 blocks of 3rd and 4th Street), though they are unsigned, unmarked on any maps at this point in time, and aren't generally known by those names by anyone.
The large area south of East Trade Street, and east of South College Street, and situated along both sides of Independence Blvd (now East Stonewall St) is Brooklyn, the oldest historically African-American neighborhood in Charlotte. The neighborhood was razed during the late 1960s. The northern part of the tract was redeveloped into Marshall Park in the early 1970s.
The southern part of the tract, along with the area east of Mc Dowell Street sat vacant (with parts of abandoned streets cutting through the tract) for more than a decade, until the John Belk Freeway / I-277 was built, in two phases, across what remained of the land during the 1980s.
Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Old map of Jamaïca in 1893. Contributor Colin Liddell in 1893. Published in London, Stanford's Geographical Establishment.
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Manager Mr. Pond. Agent Robert Jordan.
Quarry Pit (arrowed) - sunk c1836 to No.1 Rhondda seam - closed c1913.
.Prince of Wales - shaft sunk 1837 - 17' x 11' using furnace ventilation.
June 1851 - Mr. E. Rogers installed a speaking tube down the "Abercarn Fach" colliery to enable the banksman & hitcher to communicate. This was made of a newly discovered substance, "Gutta percha" - a form of natural rubber, 1.5 inches dia. with a whistle at each end.
In September 1861a new shaft was being sunk by a contractor, Mr. Brown, and when at a depth of 120 yds. he gave "a sumptuous" dinner for his sinkers at the Commercial Hotel to celebrate their efforts. This shaft, 22' x 18', commenced coaling in 1862.
Both shafts were lined with stonework for the upper part and firebricks the lower.
Also in 1861/62 there was considerable unrest and strikes due to reduction of wages and a riot broke out when the men asked for an advance on their wages, claiming they could not live on the reduced rates, and the Ebbw Vale Company responded by sending in workers from Ebbw Vale to test their complaints. Thirteen men were prosecuted for riotous behavior.
In 1868 there was considerable unrest when striking miners were threatened with eviction from their Company homes, during a four month strike against a 15% reduction in wages, to allow workers from Cornwall & Staffordshire to work the mine.
It was in this year, 1878, September 11th., that 268 No. men & boys were killed in a massive explosion in the fiery Black Vein seam. The adjacent canal was diverted into the mine to extinguish the fires.
At the time of this disaster there were the two shafts here, the main coaling downcast of 1862 and the upcast of 1837, with another downcast recently sunk at Cwmcarn - 1.25 miles away.
The original furnace ventilation had been replaced in 1871 by a 40' dia. Guibal fan. Pumping was by a Cornish engine placed between the pits and drawing from the downcast shaft.
No black powder was in use at the time - coal was loosened by wedges, the Black Vein seam being some 10' 6" thick and worked over three shifts on the pillar & double stall method.
In March 1879 there were still some 200 bodies awaiting recovery and the Ebbw Vale Coal & Iron Co. had expended c£10,000 endevouring to reach them but without substantial progress and estimated a further 12 - 18 months were required to remove the bodies at some £500 per week.
In recognition of gallentry displayed in the aftermath of the disaster awards were made to certain individuals :- Albert Medal 1st. class to Henry Davies (collier) and John Harris (mason). Albert Medal 2nd. class to William Simons (pumpsman), Thomas Herbert (pumpsman), Miles Mosely (Overman), Charles Preen (collier), William Walters (collier),Charles Morgan (collier) and Lewis Harris (Overman), all of Abercarn.
As a result of this disaster there were 132 No. widows, who each received 7s. a week from a fund set up by public subscription - 373 No. fatherless children - 2s-6d given for each first child and 2s for each further child below the age of 12 yrs.
Following the aborted attempts to recover the remaining bodies the mine was idle until, following the formation of a new company in January 1883 - The Abercarn Coal Co. Ltd. - it was decided to sink a second shaft at Cwmcarn. The area containing the remaining bodies of victims of the 1878 disaster was explicitly not to be entered.
1895 - Winding engine No.1, installed 1875, had a 21ft. dia. drum for flat ropes 5" x 1" winding two trams per wind double decked.
No.2 upcast winder by Messrs. John Slee & Co., installed 1888, had a 16ft. dia. drum 7ft. wide for round ropes 1.25" dia. Headgears wrought iron plate & angles 72ft. high to spindles of 18ft. dia. sheaves.
Surface sited steam haulage engines for underground haulage - Manager William Jones - area of take 2000 acres.
March 1899 - The Appeal Court found in favour of several colliers in a class action - Brace & Others V Abercarn Coal Co. - to the effect that the company were not entitled to make deductions from the men's wages for small coal brought to bank when that small coal was due to breakages during transportation and that the men were entitled to receive paymant for all coal got.
February 1929 - death of Mr. Christopher Pond at Blackwood at age of 82 years - manager at P.o.W colliery 1872 - 1878 - native of Swansea and had worked in mines of Pittsburg in earlier years.
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Map by Arrow Maps, published for a bank.
The infamous Worcester tornado, thought by many meteorologists to have been the most violent - in estimated wind speeds - to have ever been recorded along the US East Coast, passed along the northern edge of this photo area. The thunderstorm itself was so intense that it dropped debris, along with a lot of very large hail, across the southern suburbs of Boston 45 minutes later.