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Shell Oil Company road maps - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Shell Oil Company road maps - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Gas station road maps of states and cities from the 1940s and 1950s, mostly before the turnpikes, freeways, and interstates were built....
NOAA Historical Declination Viewer
NOAA Historical Declination Viewer An interactive map showing historical magnetic variation (the angle between true north and the direction a magnetic compass will point) since 1590. The movement of the north magnetic pole has accelerated in recent years. Since 1963,...
Oil Town "Aero Views" - American Oil & Gas Historical Society
Oil Town "Aero Views" - American Oil & Gas Historical Society 'Traveling from Pennsylvania to Texas at the turn of the century, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler created oil town "aero views" - panoramic maps of many of America's earliest petroleum communities.... 'From...
Historical County Maps - 1936
Historical County Maps of Arkansas - 1936 Scans of county highway maps, showing the locations of roads, schools, churches, and settlements....
Shell Highway Map of Oklahoma. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
1948 Shell Highway Map of Oklahoma. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection A remarkable map of Oklahoma that not only shows the official highway system, but also county roads and small towns that were usually omitted by the official state...
McGraw Electric Railway Manual - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
McGraw Electric Railway Manual - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online Maps of streetcar lines, interurbans, trolleys, and other electric railways from 1898 to 1913....
Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia
Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia Queensland was divided into 109 counties in the mid-19th century (map), then further divided into 322 counties by 1901 (map). Although no longer (if ever?) used for local government, these old county divisions...
Newberry Library: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project
Newberry Library: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project Interactive maps, downloadable shapefiles, and chronological narratives of state and county boundaries over time. Useful for historical and genealogical research. Massachusetts' chronology is particularly interesting, as it covers the former separate colony...
San Francisco Residential Security Map, 1937
San Francisco Residential Security Map, 1937 1937 street map of San Francisco (which also shows streetcar and trolley bus lines at the time) was color coded by the Federal Government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation to indicate various levels of perceived...
School Desegregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma: August 1977
School Desegregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma: August 1977 A report of the Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. The advisory committee was chaired by State Rep. Hannah Atkins of Oklahoma City, and members included vice chairman...
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