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Map by Thomas Brothers Maps. Map features Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, San Leandro and neighboring towns on reverse. Glued into the right side of an orange card stock cover.
Map by Geographia Maps. The Bayshore Freeway was open, and part of the double-decked Central Skyway, but nothing else - including the Embarcadero Freeway - is on the map yet, so it may be a bit older.
Map by Thomas Brothers Maps. Page from a "Street Guide to Los Angeles County" that is about the size of a trade paperback novel. This isn't one of the spiral-bound street guides Thomas Brothers would begin to emphasize from the mid-1960s onward.
May by Geographia Map Co. Tough to make out, but the post-WWII occupation zones (the Allies) are indicated on this map.
Map by Arrow Maps. Published for the Seward Chamber of Commerce. Seward is among the most remote points directly accessible via paved road from the rest of the North American road network; it is also Milepost 0 on the famed Iditarod Trail. The epicenter of the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964 - the strongest earthquake to have ever been historically recorded in North America - was about 80 or 90 miles northeast of Seward, and there was very heavy damage in the area.
The white highlight shows terminus of Walter Coffin's tramroad ( Blue ) at Dinas built 1812 as an extension to Dr. Griffiths' tramroad to transport coal from his levels to the Glamorganshire canal. This was the first recorded venture of coal mining in Rhondda and, as "Coffin's Coal", was one of the earliest coal shipments from Cardiff.
A point of interest - Walter Coffin is recorded as having opened the first deep mine in Rhondda in 1812 with his Lower Dinas colliery - Dinas Isha (Isa) - but there is no sign of this on this map!
Another point of interest - the tramroad at this time extended up to the location of the Dinas Middle pit - but this pit is recorded as having been sunk 1832 some three years later!
The Rhondda valleys were yet to be industrialised at this time.
A report dated June 1849 states " Walter Coffin's coal is brought down the tramroad to the village of Eirw at which point it is tipped into large waggons on the Rhondda branch of the Taff Vale Railway which is under construction, the contractor being Mr. Joseph Waters of Caerleon"
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Map by ADC - Alexandria Drafting Company. Map covers all of Talbot County. Easton is the hometown of Frederick Douglass.
Map by Compass Maps. Oro is Spanish for gold; methinks that, once upon a time, there was gold in them thar hills.
Arrow Maps - Between 1964 and 1972, Arrow had introduced folded maps (and a handful of wall maps) to the following cities in North Carolina: Asheville, Highlands, Hendersonville, Brevard, Waynesville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Thomasville, Lexington, Asheboro, High Point, Greensboro, Burlington, Chapel Hill, Durham, Fayetteville, Wadesboro, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Wilmington, and Jacksonville. These were all out of print by 1980; several went through some very sloppy and hasty updates in the mid 1980s and made brief re-appearances on the market. The deeply M.I.A. Durham, Fayetteville and Wilmington maps (at one extreme) received meticulous, block-by-block updates, whereas the Charlotte map (at the other extreme) has the eastern 1.4 of the city chopped off and 2 freeways (one 5 miles long) weren't included in the 'update.'
By 1990, Arrow was reduced to a New England company, and was out of business completely by the late 90s.
Last several weeks were quite busy with work so didn't have much time for puzzling. And also, these borders took much more time than I anticipated. Nevertheless, the grid is complete, and now filling in the small illustrations...
Total time: 42h 55min
This is a pre-ww1 manual for the drawing of Feld-Krokis or Übersichtsskizzen (field map sketches) for officers and NCOs, based on the Royal Prussian Land Survey (Königlich Preussische Landesaufnahme) from 1909. The associated map of Bodensee with Netze-Fluß and Ilm-See and the other of Kirchdorf may be fictional sample maps, drawn to show the use of map symbols.
The original plan for Adams St station from 1897. This station was later abandoned and destroyed when the new City Hall was built at Government Center.
Map by William E. Boesch. This map covers all of New Orleans, and folds out of a card stock cover, with a guide booklet to New Orleans stapled into the inner left side of the cover. The booklet includes a street guide and explanation of New Orleans' street layout, an enlargement of the French Quarter, and a guide to other points of interest, including schools, all municipal buildings and facilities, tourist attractions of the era, museums, cemetaries and even housing projects.
Map by Thomas Brothers Map Co. Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, California isn't the only Half Moon Bay in the world, though it is likely the most famous. There's a (presumably unrelated) song by Mott the Hoople that shares the name.
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
This pair of mixed media earrings is made out of resin-ed paper in the form of an old world map, 12 and 16 gauge brass wires augmented by fire, brass tone findings and Pink Tourmaline beads.
* the earrings are approx 3.5 inches in length (including earwires)
* the earwires are 20 gauge brass wires handformed and also augmented by fire
find this and other items at alteredalchemy.etsy.com
Note the houses along the main road in front of the castle at that time - now an embankment.
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Extract from a map over a hundred years old, on a wall in farm office, August 2013.
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Overview of the area. The highlights indicate collieries working at that time whilst the means of transporting the coal is shown by the tramroads / canal.
Highlight 1 - Cefn Coch colliery was connected by tramway to Kendon colliery - Highlight 2 - which was in turn connected to a parallel line with Hall's tramway below Newbridge (but at a lower level) and connected to the canal basin near Abercarn. The present day Hall's Road lane is incorrectly named as it is on the route of the Kendon Tramway!
The Monmouthshire canal terminated at Crumlin Bridge and from there to Beaufort ran a tramroad completed 1793 / 94 - the canal itself completed a couple of years later.
Hall's Tramroad connected the Manmoel and Waterloo collieries to the Sirhowy Tramroad at Risca.
Llanarth Tramroad, built 1821, connected the Rock colliery to the Sirhowy Tramroad near Nine Mile Point. The Rock & Fountain pub in Blackwood was an office for this tramroad.
The Sirhowy Tramroad can be seen running along the main street in Blackwood - the town grew up along the tramway as a stabling post. This tramroad was constructed between 1802 - 1805 by John Hodgkinson under the direction of Benjamin Outram to run between Tredegar and Newport via Tredegar Park (the Golden Mile).
Samuel Homfray commissioned a steam loco to run this route in 1829 which was preceeded by a passenger horse coach in 1822 operated by John Kingson which proved very popular for Saturday markets at Newport.
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Map by Thomas Brothers Maps, published for a San Jose bank. Map has a 1978 copyright, though the production date coding on the map indicates October, 1976 as the actual update month and year. Many of the proposed freeways shown were never built. Map covers an area that stretches from Mendocino in the north to Monterey in the South, and inland to Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto.
Level arrowed (lower). this mine was more commonly known as the Machen Pit - as were others in the area - and was a drift which worked clay and coal from the lower coal measures, namely the Big, Brass & Black Veins together with the Sun Vein below the Farewell Rock.
This particular Bovil mine closed 1894.
The upper arrow shows the earlier Sun Vein Level - disused at this time - which became integrated with the Bovil.
It was these levels,opened pre-1843, that were listed under John Brewer & Son that MAY have been connected with the Chartist leader Zephaniah Williams.
In 1858 Mr. Thomas Forster-Brown, a Northumberland man,see notes, became manager, a post he held until 1865 and married into the Hicks family of Machen.
He went on to become an eminent mining & civil engineer in the South Wales coalfield and was involved in Rhos Llantwit colliery together with a number of the major collieries and railways in the area.
In 1865 he became the Deputy Gaveller of the Forest of Dean, a post he held until 1903 as well as that of Crown Receiver from 1887.
In later years he represented the Owners on the Sliding Scale Committee of South Wales.
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Another amazing city! Map by Dolph Map Co. US Route 52 begins in Downtown Charleston, on the Battery, and continues northwestward for more than 2000 miles to the Canadian border between NW North Dakota and Saskatchewan. En route, the highway passes through Florence (SC), Winston-Salem (NC), Wytheville (VA), Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Joliet (IL), Dubuque, Rochester (MN), Minneapolis-St Paul, Fargo, and Minot, before continuing NW for another 100 miles into Saskatechewan (where the SASK highway, which has a different number) continues onward to Regina and Saskatoon.
Map by the Rodney Stokes Company, published for a bank. La Jolla is part of the city of San Diego, located on the coast 10 to 12 miles north-northwest of the central part of the city. Several academic and research institutions are located within the greater La Jolla area of San Diego, along with some very scenic residential areas.
The big red lines are the IND lines, which at the time were an entirely separate system of subways, independent of the other two. More on this at the bottom of this caption
For the past few Decembers the MTA has run a special "nostalgia train" 4 or 5 times each Sunday. The train consists of a variety of vintage cars built between the 1930's and 1970's- primarily R1 or R9 models built beginning in 1930. This year, it runs on the 6th Avenue line, between Queens Plaza and 2nd Avenue. www.mta.info/nyct/service/events/vintage.html
The ride is great fun. Lacking the insulated walls and suspension systems of the modern subway, these trains roar and teeter as they blast through the tunnels with their distinctive electric motor whirr. There is no climate control, and it must have been hell during the summer, with only open windows and ceiling fans to alleviate the notorious oven steambath of the subway in July or August.
I believe these trains are preserved by the New York Transit Museum, who have kept the original signage and advertising intact. Running them like this is one of the best ideas the Transit Authority has had in a long long long time.
With so much to look at, it was one of the quickest rides I can remember having. The train was full of transit nerds (like myself) and there was a bit of a party atmosphere. There were also a number of older people who rode these cars back when they were in full service. The best part, however, was to observe the shock of regular commuters who had no idea that this was going to be the train that was going to take them to work, or whereever. And, of course, it's also amazing how many were just completely indifferent to it all- having lunch, reading the paper, doing crosswords...
December 12, 2010
These trains ran on the IND lines, which were built in the 1930's as the city's third separate subway system. "IND" indicated its independence from the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit- the original 1904 system covering Manhattan and the Bronx) and the BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the second system built) In 1940, the City unified the three systems into one.
Today the IND portion of the subway includes, among others, the E and F lines through Queens, Manhattan, and into Brooklyn, the Crosstown G line, and the famous "A" train.
Since the IND, there has been little new construction on the subway. It's frustrating that nearly the entire system used today was built in less time (35 years or so, and through a World War and the Great Depression...) than it will take to finally finish one lousy line- the much-need 2nd Avenue line, which began in 1972 and whose first phase (only a few stations) is slated to be completed in 2016. All while fares rise and services are cut. Obviously, there's something very wrong with the MTA.
Shepton Mallet 1885 - Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk).