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English: This folding railroad promotional brochure map is a fine example of a late nineteenth-century American railway map by one of the most important American railway mapmakers and publishers still in business today: Rand, McNally and Company of Chicago. Established in 1858 as a printing company, by 1873 the firm was known for its railroad ...
A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week. In 1873, McNally and William H. Rand incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. With William H. Rand as President and McNally as Vice President. [2] Rand, McNally & Co. becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers ...
Marah Ellis Ryan, c. 1897. Marah Ellis Ryan (née Martin; February 27, 1860 or 1866 – July 11, 1934), also known as Ellis Martin, was an author, actress, and activist from the United States.
The Rand McNally Building was an early skyscraper at 160–174 Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, built in 1889 and demolished in 1911. Designed by Burnham and Root , it was the world's first all- steel framed skyscraper .
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McNally is an Irish surname originating in County Tyrone, in the province of Ulster.It is the Anglicized form of Mac Conallaidh 'son of Cú Allaidh', a Gaelic name of the Cenél nEógain clan meaning the 'wild hound', i.e. 'wolf'.
McNally Jackson Books is an independent bookstore based in Manhattan, New York, owned and operated since 2004 by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and the child of Holly and Paul McNally, the founders of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers chain. [1]
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...