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From: "Michael Holt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:06:26 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Gousha oddity - help identify

Telephone exchanges?  The map would be locating the central offices (the
sites of the telephone switching stations).

Michael HOlt

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>From: "Patrick Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:18:27 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>Subject: Gousha oddity
>
>Gentle Readers,
>
>Attached here is an image of a peculiar Gousha road map we've run across
>at the Newberry Library, titled Official Territorial Road Map : Central
>United States (Chicago : H.M. Gousha Co., [1939?]), plate no. M-8 at
>bottom right.
>
>The base map is printed in blue but overprinted in red with hundreds of
>unidentified points in rural areas well off the road network.  These
>points are connected with radiating lines to numbers printed in the
>margins within circle and square borders, but without a key to these
>numbered sites, which are apparently NOT state parks.
>
>
Telephone exchanges?  The map would be locating the central offices (the
sites of the telephone switching stations).