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Automatic time-teller, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. Tired of searching thru maps and schedules whenever some one in the State Department wanted to know what time it was in Rio of Timbuktu, Samuel Boggs, the department's geographer, has devised his own automatic time-teller. It is rotating disk-like chart which tells at a glance the time of day and the day of the week in any part of the world. The world as it would look from the North Pole is charted on the disk and then divided into hour zones

Automatic time-teller, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. Tired of searching th...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit holding a plate. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Title page with five men seated at desks writing, possibly includes the author, Strabo, a Greek geographer]

[Title page with five men seated at desks writing, possibly includes t...

Illustrated title page in: De situ orbis / Strabo. [Venetiis : Impressum per B. de Zanis de Portesio, 1502]. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 19... More

Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys by Amos Lay, geographer & map publisher, New York.

Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate s...

Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and p... More

Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads & c.; by David H. Burr (Late topographer to the Post Office), Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, cana...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... More

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United States, and the surveyors appointed pursuant to the ordinance of Congress, passed May 20, 1785, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and who have accepted their appointments proceed in the execution of the said Ordinance ...

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United State...

Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 962 (#531), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans gives title as: On motion of M... More

Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c.; by David H. Burr (late topographer to the Post Office,) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and...

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: London and Washington D.C. "Entered according to Act of Congress, July 10th, 1839, by David H. Burr, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Col... More

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and Co. engravers, in connection with J. H. Eddy, geographer, New York ... [Philadelphia, 1817].

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tan...

Prospectus.; New and elegant American atlas.; Imprint 2. Page Order: Center Span Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More

.. Resolved by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that all surveys of lands in the western territory made under the direction of the late geographer, Thomas Hutchins, agreeable to contr

.. Resolved by the Senate and House of representatives of the United S...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed: Fre... More

Map of Kentucky & Tennessee exhitibing the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c.; by David. H. Burr (Late topographer to the Post Office,) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Map of Kentucky & Tennessee exhitibing the post offices, post roads, c...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... More

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and Co. engravers, in connection with J. H. Eddy, geographer, New York ... [Philadelphia, 1817].

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tan...

Prospectus.; New and elegant American atlas.; Imprint 2. Page Order: Center Span Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More

.. Resolved by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that all surveys of lands in the western territory made under the direction of the late geographer, Thomas Hutchins, agreeable to contr

.. Resolved by the Senate and House of representatives of the United S...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed: Fre... More

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United States, and the surveyors appointed pursuant to the ordinance of Congress, passed May 20, 1785, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and who have accepted their appointments proceed in the execution of the said Ordinance ...

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United State...

Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 962 (#531), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans gives title as: On motion of M... More

A map of the world with ships DUKE & DUTCHESS' tract round it from 1708 to 1711, by Herman Moll, geographer

A map of the world with ships DUKE & DUTCHESS' tract round it from 170...

Engraving by Eman Bowen. Illus. in: Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Round the World, 1726, opp. title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4701. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capti... More

Map of North and South Carolina exhibiting the post offices post roads, canals, rail roads &c. By David H. Burr; (Late topographer to the Post Office.) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Map of North and South Carolina exhibiting the post offices post roads...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... More

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and Co. engravers, in connection with J. H. Eddy, geographer, New York ... [Philadelphia, 1817].

New and elegant American atlas, to be published in Philadelphia by Tan...

Prospectus.; New and elegant American atlas.; Imprint 2. Page Order: Center Span Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More

Map of New York exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads &c. By David H. Burr; (Late topographer to the Post Office.) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Map of New York exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail ...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... More

Proposals by Amos Lay. Geographer and map publisher, Author and publisher of the late maps of the northern part of the State of New-York, upper and lower Canada. For revising, correcting, and republishing from the latest authorities and from a

Proposals by Amos Lay. Geographer and map publisher, Author and publ...

On verso: Amos. Lay 215, National Annual 150-/334. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfoli... More