Color print. Cities and towns are shown, and rivers and other topographical features are depicted and identified. Railroads are shown in different colors, and the distances between stations are noted. Mail routes are also shown with distances between post offices and types of service reported. A color code to the railroads, a gazetteer of the state's counties (with total, white, and "colored" population denoted), a map of North Carolina's congressional districts, and a table of U.S. states and territories noting population, area, and capital all appear as insets. The bottom half of the sheet on which the map appears contains an index to place names. Railroads shown include the Aberdeen & Ashboro; Aberdeen & Rockfish; Appalachia & Cleveland; Atlantic, Knoxville & Northern; Atlantic Coast Line; Atlantic & North Carolina; Atlantic & Western; Ayden Lumber Co.; Caldwell & Northern; Caney River; Cape Fear Lumber Co.; Cape Fear & Northern; Carolina Northern; Carolina & Northwestern; Carolina & Tennessee Northern; Carthage; Cashie & Chowan; Danville & Western; Dover & South Bound; Durham & Charlotte; East Carolina; East Tennessee & Western North Carolina; Fayetteville & Albemarle; Hoffman & Troy; Kinston & Carolina; Lawndale; Linville River; McMullen-Miller Lumber Co.; Mount Airy & Eastern; Murray Lumber Co.; New Hanover Transit Co.; Norfolk & Southern; Norfolk & Westersn; Northampton & Hertford; North Carolina Lumber Co.; Pamlico, Oriental & Western; Raleigh & Cape Fear; Raleigh & Pamlico Sound; Raleigh & Western; Red Springs & Bowmore; Seaboard Air Line; Southern; South & Western; Suffolk & Carolina; Tennessee & North Carolina; Transylvania; Warrenton; Wellington & Powellsville; and Whitney Reduction Co. On verso: maps of the hemispheres and the coats of arms and flags of selected nations.
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