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Carlisle Library : Map 108
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Trade card, folded, uncoloured engraving, advertising The Queen's Hotel, Ambleside, Westmorland, issued by John Brown, about 1870s.
The cover has a print of the hotel and a map; the reverse has descriptive text.
The circular map is centred on Ambleside, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch; the same map has been found on other trade cards.
   Trade Card Maps 1860s-90s
inscription:- printed front cover
AMBLESIDE, WINDERMERE / The Queen's Hotel, / The only Hotel in Ambleside that Commands / A View of Windermere Lake.
royal arms
inscription:- printed reverse text
... LAKE SIDE HOTEL, / ADJOINING THE / Lake Side Railway Station Steamboat Pier, / ... / JOHN BROWN, Proprietor, / QUEEN'S HOTEL, AMBLESIDE.
inscription:- printed title below map
MAP OF THE VICIINITY OF AMBLESIDE
map feature:- up is N & scale line & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale of Miles
scale line:- 8 miles = 38.1 mm
wxh, folded:- 8x11cm
wxh, unfolded:- 23.5x11cm
diam, map:- 70mm
scale:- 1 to 340000 ? (1 to 337920 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)