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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
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Carlisle Library
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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.
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Trade Card Maps 1860s-90s
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inscription:-
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printed front cover
AMBLESIDE, WINDERMERE / The Queen's Hotel, / The only
Hotel in Ambleside that Commands / A View of Windermere
Lake.
royal arms
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inscription:-
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printed reverse text
... LAKE SIDE HOTEL, / ADJOINING THE / Lake Side Railway
Station Steamboat Pier, / ... / JOHN BROWN, Proprietor, /
QUEEN'S HOTEL, AMBLESIDE.
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inscription:-
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printed title below map
MAP OF THE VICIINITY OF AMBLESIDE
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map feature:-
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up is N & scale line & rivers & lakes &
relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements
& roads & railways
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Scale of Miles
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scale line:-
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8 miles = 38.1 mm
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wxh, folded:-
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8x11cm
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wxh, unfolded:-
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23.5x11cm
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diam, map:-
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70mm
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scale:-
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1 to 340000 ? (1 to 337920 from scale line, assuming a
statute mile)
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