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Stock# 51215
Description
Scarce separately published world map, illustrating steam powered sea and railroad routes throughout the world.
The map was printed to accompany a report published by the Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Statistics, entitled Transportation Routes and Systems of the World -- Development of Steam-Carrying Power on land and Sea 1800 to 1906, published in September 1907.
The introductory note in the report (not present) which describes the map states:
The accompanying map, entitled "Transportation Routes of the World," is intended to present a birdseye view of the great land and water transportation routes of the world. Many maps showing vessel routes on the ocean have been published, also many maps showing the railways of the principal countries, but few if any attempts have been made to show even in outline in a single map the great transportation routes and systems of the entire world. This map, prepared in the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor, it is hoped will serve the purpose of presenting in outline a combination of the information regarding land and water routes found only in separate form in other publications. It is not the intention to enter upon any elaborate discussion of transportation routes, methods, or systems, but simply to outline in this condensed form the great highways of commerce by land and sea in combination. This seems especially appropriate at this time, when the land and water transportation systems of the world are offering, facilities by which the producer or merchant in the interior of one continent may ship his merchandise from his own door to that of the consignee in the far interior of another continent upon a through bill of lading, and therefore with a knowledge of the cost of transportation from his own establishment to that of the consignee and an assurance that the through freights shipped in this manner will pass promptly from the land vehicle to that of the ocean, and again from that of the ocean to that of the land.
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