Collection Items
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MapEl Salvador - from Official and Other Sources.
Salvador - from Official and Other Sources This 1903 map of El Salvador was published by the International Bureau of the American Republics (instituted in 1910 as the Pan American Union), an agency established in 1890 in Washington D.C., by resolution of the International Conference of American States. The bureau issued handbooks, maps, and a monthly bulletin for disseminating information relating to the promotion of trade among the countries of the...- Date: 1903
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MapGeneral Map of the Republic of El Salvador, 1858.
Mapa general de la republica de Salvador Maximilian von Sonnenstern was a German civil engineer who was employed for many years by the government of Nicaragua and carried out detailed surveys of the country. Sonnenstern also produced maps of other Central American countries. His Mapa general de la republica de Salvador (General map of the Republic of El Salvador), created in 1858 and published in 1859, was commissioned by Rafael Campo...- Contributor: Sonnenstern, Maximilian Von - Kraetzer, G. - Rau, J. - Campo, Rafael
- Date: 1858
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Photo, Print, DrawingSugar Cane Queen. This photograph from El Salvador shows the sugar cane queen of a local festival and her retinue, elegantly gowned in dresses with billowing skirts, on a float decorated with sugar cane stalks. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of...- Date: 1960
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Photo, Print, DrawingEaster Parade, Sawdust Carpets. This photograph from El Salvador shows an Easter parade that features decorative, carpet-like coverings made from sawdust on the streets. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs were taken by prominent photographers on OAS missions to member...- Date: 1960
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Photo, Print, DrawingLocal Rodeo. This photograph from El Salvador shows a rodeo in an open field, with a horseback rider performing while spectators, some on horseback, some standing, and some in trucks, look on. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs...- Date: 1963
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MapInter-American Highway. The Inter-American Highway is the portion of the Pan-American Highway system that runs from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to Panama City, Panama, a total of 5,390 kilometers. The First Pan American Congress of Highways took place in October 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the auspices of the Pan American Union. The congress was followed by a program of surveys and further meetings to discuss...- Contributor: Inter-American Highway Commission
- Date: 1931
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of Central America, 1856.
Map of Central America This 1856 map of Central America was created by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, based on information provided by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and edited and printed by the New York mapmaker and publisher Adolphus Ranney (1824-74). It shows the extreme southern part of Mexico and the six countries of Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador (El Salvador), Nicaragua, Costa...- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Julius Bien and Company - United States Coast and Geodetic Survey - Ranney, Adolphus
- Date: 1856
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Mayance Nations and Languages. This circa-1934 map, prepared for Maya Society Quarterly and printed by the National Printing Office, Guatemala, shows the distribution of the Mayance (Mayan) nations and languages in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, and western Honduras in the period from about 1000 to 1500. The map is based on the research of William E. Gates (1863--1940), an American Mayanist and collector of Mesoamerican manuscripts who worked...- Contributor: Gates, William - Maya Society
- Date: 1934
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of Guatemala : reduced from the survey in the archives of that country, 1826. "On July 1, 1823, a Guatemalan National Constituent Assembly declared that the provinces that made up the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala, "are free and independent of old Spain, of Mexico, and of every other power." The new country was called the United Provinces of Central America. It included the provinces of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador,...- Contributor: Arrowsmith, Aaron
- Date: 1826
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Book/Printed MaterialCentral America; describing each of the states of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; Their natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization... John Baily was an Englishman who lived for many years in Central America. He was employed in 1837-38 by the government of Nicaragua to survey a potential canal route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. In 1850 Baily published this book and a separate map of Central America that showed four proposed routes for an isthmian canal. Central America begins with an...- Contributor: Baily, John
- Date: 1850
- Resource: - 198 pages