Tour With Confidence

Vintage Shell gas station road map of New Orleans, no date listed (ca 1950s). Copyrighted by the H.M. Gousha Company, Chicago IL.

Found in "Henry James: 1843-1870" by Leon Edel. Published by Lippincott, 1953.

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Mass Transit

Map of Washington DC from 1942

Found in "The Fisherman's Encyclopedia" pubished by The Stackpole Company, 1960.

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I've Been Workin' On The Railroad

Repair and inspection report for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, looks to be dated 1931, although I can't really make out any of the notes in pencil.

Looks like our repairman had other things on his mind, as there is a detailed trout stream map drawn on the other other side:

Found in "Inspection of Locomotive Brake and Signal Equipment" published by Westinghouse, October 1928.

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Coming Back

Hand drawn map, with notes and a drawing:

Fri 4:30 PM leaving
Sun 9:30 AM coming back

Found in "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins. Published by Bantam, 1984.


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Wrong Turn in Tanganyika

 

Map on Tanganyika. Looks hand-drawn, or at least a copy of a hand-drawn map.

Found in "Landscape Gardening in Japan" by Josiah Conder. Published by Dover, 1964.

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There Once Was A Girl From Nantucket

Mimeographed copy of a Nantucket property map, dated June 1st, 1927.

Found folded in "The Croquet Player" by H.G. Wells. Published by Viking, 1937.

For fun, I lined up the map with a current street map from Google: