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Atlas was laid out in 1884, and named after Atlas, a deity who held up the celestial sphere. [3] A post office was established at Atlas in 1884, and remained in operation until 1943. [ 4 ]
Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), also known as A.J. Johnson, led the New York City publishing company which published Johnson's Family Atlases from 1860 to 1887. These atlases were published under his name alone or with Browning (1860–62) and Ward (1862-1866), and are fascinating because the sequence of atlas maps documented the growth of the United States during this quarter century ...
English: Location map of Texas, USA. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120 %. Geographic limits of the map: ... (Map Lab). You can propose maps to improve as ...
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
Day, James M. (1964) Maps of Texas, 1527-1900: The Map Collections of the Texas State Archives, Austin: The Pemberton Press, pp. 13, 15–18, 20, 23, 25, 32 Taliaferro, Henry G.; Jane A. Kenamore and Uli Haller (1988) Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library , Category:College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press for the Rosenberg ...
The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. [1] Many of the maps in the collection have been scanned and are available online, and most of these maps are public domain. [2] The collection includes maps of special interest: Afghanistan
H.M. Gousha Map Company was acquired by the Times Mirror Company in 1961, and then Simon & Schuster in 1987. In Gousha's later years, the company operated out of Comfort TX. Analog maps (large plate, hand etched negatives) and digital maps were produced out of this office.
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