[Rarebooks] fs: Port of Baltimore, Confidential Report, 1941

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(No. 9527 )  Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, War Department. PORT 
AND TERMINAL FACILITIES AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE, MD. 1941.
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1941. First printing, 
Wrappers, Octavo, viii, 150 pages, black and white photographs, fold-out 
maps. Very Good.
      Detailed information on the Port of Baltimore published just before 
the U.S. entered World War II. Information on tide effects, anchorages, 
bridges, fuel supplies, oil and coal bunkering, piers and wharves, grain 
elevators, bulk freight storage, and more. Among the photographs are an 
aerial view of Baltimore Harbor, the B&O Railroad coal pier at Curtis Bay, 
the Pennsylvania Railroad piers in Canton, B&O terminals at Locust Point, 
and much more. There are four large fold-out maps giving detailed depictions 
of port facilities as of September, 1941. This report, No. 1403, was 
originally marked "Confidential" but is stamped and initialed on front cover 
with a change to "Unclassified" in June, 1945. Bound in light blue paper 
covers over a stapled binding. There are remnants of a pink perforated sheet 
(probably a transmittal) removed at inside front cover. Minor edge wear to 
covers. Binding sound....... $125.00
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