Author: Index Map Company
Publisher:
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Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Clock System" Rural Index of Seneca County, New York
Author: Index Map Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Clock System" Rural Index
Author: American Rural Index Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Publisher:
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Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Clock and Compass
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver, Colorado, and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city dwellers. He patented his invention called the “Clock System” and tried to sell it to the Post Office Department. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chances at geographic immortality.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver, Colorado, and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city dwellers. He patented his invention called the “Clock System” and tried to sell it to the Post Office Department. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chances at geographic immortality.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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A Guide to Local Historical Material in the Libraries of South Central New York State
Author: South Central Research Library Council. Local History Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Also includes genealogical and biographical materials.
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Also includes genealogical and biographical materials.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
History of Seneca County, New York--the Index & Supplement 1786-1876
Author: Mrs. Cameron F. MacRae
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Cornell Reading-courses
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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