| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 2578 |  | Details | Mobile Chamber of Commerce | 1890 |
| Antique Map Demostrating Mobile's Suitability as a Gateway for Trade |
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce |
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| 1890 |
| LOC:88 |
| $165.00 | Mobile-Chamber-of-Commerce | Antique-Map-Demostrating-Mobile-s-Suitability-as-a-Gateway-for-Trade | Small booklet ca. 1890 with a map of the Gulf Coast and Caribbean Sea showing distances for water-borne commerce. Addressed to "The Honorable Senators and Representatives of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C.".
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The booklet contains an eight page section of text explaining the argument in favor of Mobile, as a shipping hub to the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America. According to the text a circle 600 miles in diameter with St. Louis at its center at that time contained a population of over 15,000,000 million persons and the richest area for production of agricultural products and livestock. Further, the authors argued that
<div class="indenttextblock">"Mobile, Alabama, by existing lines of raiway, is 244 miles nearer the center of the circle (St. Louis) than any port upon the Atlantic Ocean and 50 miles nearer that any other port upon the Gulf of Mexico."</div> Printed by T. Fitzwilliam and Company,New Orleans. |