The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 34National Geographic Society, 1918 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... feet into the sub- ways every twenty - four hours . THE COSMOPOLIS OF CIVILIZATION One scarcely knows which to wonder at most - New York , the cosmopolis of civilization , or New York , the metropolis of the western world . It has more ...
... feet into the sub- ways every twenty - four hours . THE COSMOPOLIS OF CIVILIZATION One scarcely knows which to wonder at most - New York , the cosmopolis of civilization , or New York , the metropolis of the western world . It has more ...
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... the city's forty fires a day get beyond the buildings in which they originate . THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING Photograph by Paul Thompson Rising 785 feet. Photograph by Social Press Association ONE OF NEW YORK'S GREAT HOTELS. 5.
... the city's forty fires a day get beyond the buildings in which they originate . THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING Photograph by Paul Thompson Rising 785 feet. Photograph by Social Press Association ONE OF NEW YORK'S GREAT HOTELS. 5.
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THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING Photograph by Paul Thompson Rising 785 feet above the sidewalk , possessing forty acres of floor space , and having elevator shafts with a combined length of two miles , the Woolworth Building well fits its rĂ´le ...
THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING Photograph by Paul Thompson Rising 785 feet above the sidewalk , possessing forty acres of floor space , and having elevator shafts with a combined length of two miles , the Woolworth Building well fits its rĂ´le ...
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... feet of quicksand . The structure rests on sixty- nine piers of partly reinforced concrete . The " beehive " in the foreground was the " working chamber " where the " sand hogs , " or men who exca- vate sand under air pressure , did ...
... feet of quicksand . The structure rests on sixty- nine piers of partly reinforced concrete . The " beehive " in the foreground was the " working chamber " where the " sand hogs , " or men who exca- vate sand under air pressure , did ...
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... feet in diameter and nearly two miles deep . Each human being inhabit- ing the earth could get two and a half pints of water every twenty - four hours from its capacity flow . Costing for each mile eight or ten times as much as a ...
... feet in diameter and nearly two miles deep . Each human being inhabit- ing the earth could get two and a half pints of water every twenty - four hours from its capacity flow . Costing for each mile eight or ten times as much as a ...
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