{"id":8796,"date":"2019-05-11T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:18:46","slug":"images-on-railway-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8796","title":{"rendered":"Images on Railway Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This comes from a map in the Railroad Collection at the Library of Congress. This one for Hancock County, Illinois, was one of Galbraith&#8217;s railway mail service maps, published in Chicago in 1897 and drawn Frank H. Galbraith. It can be seen completely at  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/98688467\/\">https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/98688467\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"967\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hancock-rail-map1897-1024x967.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hancock-rail-map1897-1024x967.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hancock-rail-map1897-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hancock-rail-map1897-768x725.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hancock-rail-map1897.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what each of the pictures is for the locations in Hancock County, Illinois. Most I have figured out, but there are a few I don&#8217;t. Here are the ones I think I get: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Webster&#8211;Webster&#8217;s dictionary (although that Webster had nothing to do with this Webster).<\/li><li>Burnside&#8211;the guy has sideburns<\/li><li>Plymouth&#8211;the Plymouth Rock rooster<\/li><li>Stillwell&#8211;a well<\/li><li>Warsaw&#8211;a saw<\/li><li>West Point&#8211;military cadets<\/li><li>Star&#8211;a star<\/li><li>Augusta&#8211;he&#8217;s written &#8220;June July&#8221; above it<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t get the woman&#8217;s picture by St. Mary&#8217;s&#8211;is it supposed to be &#8220;St. Mary?&#8221; The other one I don&#8217;t get is the ball player near Adrian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from a map in the Railroad Collection at the Library of Congress. This one for Hancock County, Illinois, was one of Galbraith&#8217;s railway mail service maps, published in Chicago in 1897 and drawn Frank H. Galbraith. It can be seen completely at https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/98688467\/ I&#8217;m trying to figure out what each of the pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}