'Published under the superintendence of the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.' 'Published by Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand, 15 Oct. 1842.' 'J. & C. Walker, Sculpt.' Scale [ca. 1:7,600,000]. 1 in. to ca. 120 miles (W 125°--W 91°/N 43°--N 23° 30?). 1 map ; 31 x 39 cm. Relief indicated by hachures and spot heights. Shows elevations in yards. Includes notes on exploring expeditions, etc. Borders hand colored. Chapman & Hall.
Inscription with image reads: "Fourth of July parade, 1906. Bradford & Bradford float. S.K. Bradford is standing behind the driver. May Bradford, sitting in the rear holds upright a surveyor's 'rod'. This was the last appearance of Bradford & Bradford Surveyors (as a firm) in Tonopah. They had divided up the proceeds, and all three left town the next day May for Europe, S.K. and Mrs. Bradford for a well earned vacation."
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes in New York after making a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Hughes catches up with cables in Moscow. Moscow---Howard Hughes, sorting a packet of congratulatory cables on his arrival in Moscow. He was just beginning to sprout stubble with which he returned to New York, after his record-smashing round-the-world dash. 7/25/38"
Members of the Rockwell family with friends or relatives in a boat on the Chemung River near Elmira, New York. Handwritten on back of photograph: "Tom, Ducky and self, 1902."