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Map of a Proposed Military Base in Morgan County, Missouri

A map titled "Map of Morgan County in the Central Mineral and Coal Fields of Missouri." The map shows mines, mills, schools, churches, businesses, rivers, creeks, roads, railroads, and other details. The map has been annotated to show a camp site, infantry range, maneuver area, and artillery range just southwest of Versailles, Missouri. Missouri Route 5, 52, and 135 are highlighted in pencil. Handwriting on the back reads: "Senatorial Papers of Harry S. Truman. Nat. Def. Projects-In Missouri-April 1941. Ltr. of June 27, 1941."

Map of Arkansas Resources

A "Topographic Map of the State of Arkansas." The map shows oil fields, gas fields, pipe lines, highways, contour lines, elevations, rivers, national forests, boundaries, mines, quarries, geological composition, and other details. A sticker on the back reads: "Topographic Map, State of Arkansas." Handwriting on the back reads: "Official File 273, N.D."

Map of Arkansas Resources

A "Geologic Map of Arkansas." The map includes tables, indexes, and cross-sections detailing the geologic composition of each region in Arkansas. The map also shows boundary lines, rivers, railroads, fault lines, power dams, power transmission lines, oil pipe lines, gas pipe lines, mines, quarries, oil and gas fields, and other details. A sticker on the back reads: "Geologic Map, State of Arkansas." Handwriting on the back reads: "Official File 273, N.D."

Locust Plantings on the Spoil Banks of a Stip-Mining Company in Ohio

Locust plantings on the spoil banks of the Nutter Coal Company which was doing strip-mining in Staitsville, Ohio in Wayne National Forest. Photos 2009-3080-01 through 2009-3080-107 were originally mounted in a leather bound binder with the gold embossed title, "Picture Memories of Region Nine." Region nine, based in Milwaukee WI covered twenty states in the Eastern Region: Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey.