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Useful Historical Survey of Buildings

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Useful Historical Survey of Buildings
Posted by mlehman on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:27 AM

I found this site looking aroiund for info on grain elevators. It covers a lot of those, plus dwellings, courthouses, barns, schools and privies(!):

http://www.horizonview.net/~ihs/Buildings/Buildings.html

There's a very useful section on transportation geography that's useful for putting railroads in the larger transportation context in which they operated:

http://www.horizonview.net/~ihs/Transportation/Transportation.html

Mike Lehman

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Posted by "JaBear" on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:49 PM
I was hoping that photos might have enlarged, but even so another site bookmarked for future reference. Thanks Mike.
Cheers, the Bear.Smile

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Posted by mlehman on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:52 PM

Bear,

In most browsers you have a way to enlarge the screen magnification. Mine is set up so I hold CTRL, then roll the scroll wheel on my mouse to go bigger or smaller. Don't remember how I set this up, but your browser should have a way to do this to enlarge within it. This won't help any saved pics directly, but does make things bigger for viewing.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:47 AM

Aaaaaah I've learnt something new, Hurrah! Thanks Mike.

"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."

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