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W. Rose's revised chart of the Comstock mines and Sutro Tunnel
Rose, W.
W. Rose's revised chart...
1878
13018.000
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Rose, W.
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W. Rose's revised chart of the Comstock mines and Sutro Tunnel, State of Nevada. Compiled & Drawn by W. Rose. Published by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco. A. Waldstein, Lith. S.F. Entered According Act of Congress in the Year 1878 ... Washington, D.C. (inset profile view) Sutro Tunne. (with view) The Mouth of Sutro Tunnel.
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13018.000
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Revised map of part of Nevada. Representing Comstock mines and the position of the Sutro Tunnel and the counties surrounding it. Shows mining claims, location of mineral veins, counties, roads, flumes, railroad, Indian reservations, and the Sutro Tunnel. Towns or settlements of Silver City, American Flat, Gold Hill Town, Virginia City, and Flowery Ridge. Includes small vignettes of buildings, structures, and mountain peaks. Relief shown pictorially. The Comstock Lode, a huge vein of silver discovered in 1857 under Nevada’s Mount Davidson, was the greatest precious-metal discovery since gold was found in California in 1848. Sutro Tunnel, conceived by German engineer Adolph Sutro (1830-98) as a means of draining off the huge quantities of water infiltrating the ever-deeper shafts. Constructed under Sutro’s leadership between 1869 and 1878, the tunnel extended several miles from Mount Davidson to its exit on a piece of land granted to Sutro in the vicinity of Dayton.
Carte de la production, de la circulation, de la consommation des minerais et de la production des metaux en Belgique
Firket, Adolphe Georges...
Carte de la production,...
1881
11709.001
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[Firket, Adolphe Georges Auguste, Jochams, Felix]
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Carte de la production, de la circulation, de la consommation des minerais et de la production des metaux en Belgique pendant l'annee 1878. Dressee a l'aide de documents officiels et de renseignements speciaux recueillis par M. F. Jochams, inspecteur - general de mines, par Adolphe Firket .... Institut Cartographique Militaire 1881.
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11709.001
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Color map of Belgium 73x87, dissected into 24 sections of 18x14, backed with linen. Showing production, circulation, consumption of minerals and the production of metals in Belgium during 1878. Includes color coded signs showing production, consumption and transportation of minerals, and Table of mines, minerals, factories and production of iron, zinc, lead, copper or pyrite minerals in 1878. Map showing cities, villages, roads, railroads, rivers, canals, etc. Includes legend and text. This flow diagram was likely influenced by the work of Charles Joseph Minard.
Map of the Ammonoosuc Mining District.
Hitchcock, Charles H. (...
Map of the Ammonoosuc M...
1878
3095.018
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[Hitchcock, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1836-1919, New Hampshire. Geological Survey]
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Map of the Ammonoosuc Mining District. (Julius Bien, New York, 1878) The Heliotype Printing Co. 220 Devonshire St., Boston.
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3095.018
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Hand col. lithographed map. Shows geological units, mines, townships, etc. Contour inverval 100 ft. Oriented with north toward upper left.
Covers: Anthracite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania
Strauch, Geo. B.; Cochr...
Covers: Anthracite Coal...
1878
4904.001
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[Strauch, Geo. B., Cochran, A.B.]
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(Covers to) The Anthracite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania With Their Outlets To Market. By Geo. B. Strauch And A.B. Cochran, Mining Engineers, Pottsville, Pa. 1878. Entered ... 1878 by Strauch & Cochran ... Washington D.C. T. Sinclair & Son. lith. Phila. (inset) Anthracite Coal Fields And Their Outlets To Market. Strauch & Cochran 1878
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4904.001
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Shows the four major coal fields of Eastern Pennsylvania, with an inset map on a smaller scale showing the market outlets to New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. There is a list of 291 Anthracite Collieries operating in the coal fields, statistics on annual shipments of anthracite coal, list of distances to market, and areas of coal fields. Folded into dark brown cloth covers 15.5x10 with "Anthracite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania Strauch & Cochran 1878" stamped in gilt.
Anthracite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania
Strauch, Geo. B.; Cochr...
Anthracite Coal Fields ...
1878
4904.002
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[Strauch, Geo. B., Cochran, A.B.]
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The Anthracite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania With Their Outlets To Market. By Geo. B. Strauch And A.B. Cochran, Mining Engineers, Pottsville, Pa. 1878. Entered ... 1878 by Strauch & Cochran ... Washington D.C. T. Sinclair & Son. lith. Phila. (inset) Anthracite Coal Fields And Their Outlets To Market. Strauch & Cochran 1878
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4904.002
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Color map. Shows the four major coal fields of Eastern Pennsylvania, with an inset map on a smaller scale showing the market outlets to New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. There is a list of 291 Anthracite Collieries operating in the coal fields, statistics on annual shipments of anthracite coal, list of distances to market, and areas of coal fields.
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