Trade Card Maps 1860s-90s
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 109 image:- © Carlisle Library |
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Trade card, folded, uncoloured engraving, advertising
Sly's Waterhead Hotel, proprietor Joseph Sly, Consiton,
Lancashire, ?printed by the Daily Post, Cable Street,
Liverpool, about 1876.
The cover has a print of the hotel and a map; the reverse has descriptive text; there is a pasted in text about Lounging about Coniston Lake, by an invalid, 1876. The map includes an area from Keswick to Bowness-on-Windermere, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, the Waterhead Hotel overprinted at the top of Coniston Lake; the same map has been found on other trade cards. |
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Trade Card Maps 1860s-90s | |
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printed print, bottom left, right, centre
DAILY POST / CABLE ST. L'POOL / SLY'S WATERHEAD HOTEL, CONISTON LAKE. |
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| inscription:- |
printed reverse text
... JOSEPH SLY, PROPRIETOR. |
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| map feature:- | up is N & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways | |
| wxh, folded:- | 8x12cm | |
| wxh, unfolded:- | 23.5x12cm | |
| wxh, print:- | 10.5x7cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 90x139mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 490000 ? (estimate) | |
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images:- © Carlisle Library |
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