National Geographic 1990 September ELLIS ISLAND + map
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them:
- SEPTEMBER 1990
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Vol. 178 No. 3
- The "Official Journal of the National Geographic
Society, Washington DC " (aka: The flagship magazine of the National
Geographic Society)
- This was a mailed Orange County California (OCC)
copy and has been stored in a box in the garage.
- EXCELLENT Condition
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Covers show box wear from rubbing and banging against another issue. Shows abrasiveness from being rubbed against another issue. This
specific issue has very minor abrasions and is in real excellent condition. No
pages are bent. The lighting on the picture makes the classic
mustard yellow border look brighter than it really is.
- Also included are two of the original membership
envelopes/forms. These are the things that usually fall out on the
floor. This specific issue had two stuck together.
- Supplemental map included! -
SPECIAL PLACES OF THE WORLD - NEW YORK CITY
MANHATTAN -
This supplement charts Broadway's course through
Manhattan and beyond, detailing historic landmarks, distinctive neighborhoods,
and population characteristics of New York City.
- SPINE WORDS: * NEW YORK CITY * MANILA GALLEONS *
CONCEPCION *
BROADWAY * ELLIS ISLAND * FORESTS *
CONTENTS:
- Cover - Tiny attendant, from a wedding in Manila, belongs to the Chinese
community whose forebears prospered in the Spanish galleon trade as
middlemen to China. Photograph by Sisse Brimberg.
- PAGE 5 - TRACK OF THE MANILA GALLEONS
- For two and a half centuries Spain's great merchant sailing ships plied
the Pacific Ocean, connecting a far-flung empire. Historian Eugene
Lyon traces this trade route between Acapulco, Mexico, and the distant
Philippines. Photographs by Sisse Brimberg and paintings by Robert E.
McGinnis.
- PAGE 39 - NUESTRA SENORA de la CONCEPCION
- On September 20, 1638, on eof the largest vessels of
its day, heavy laden with precious cargo, foundered in a gale off the
Northern Mariana Islands. William M. Mathers recounts the saga of the
doomed ship and his team's successful effort to salvage it.
Photographs by Sisse Brimberg. (Saipan Channel)
- PAGE 57- BROADWAY, STREET OF DREAMS
- Stretching the length of Manhattan before reaching into the suburbs,
21 mile long Broadway encompasses the glamorous an sometimes harsh realities
of life in New York City. Rick Gore and photographer Jodi Cobb
encounter both dreams and nightmares along this legendary thoroughfare.
- PAGE 89 - NEW LIFE FOR ELLIS ISLAND
- Echoing with the footsteps of the millions of immigrants who passed
through its portals, the Main Building of Ellis Island in New York Harbor
reopens as a museum after a multimillion dollar restoration. By Alice
J. Hall, with photographs by Joe McNally..
- PAGE 103 - IMMIGRATION TODAY: NEW YORK'S
IMMIGRANTS - From more than a hundred nations, 90,000 immigrants
arrive in New York City each year - still the foremost gateway for fledgling
Americans and a microcosm of the effects of changing immigration policies,
Alice Hall reports. Photographsy by Pam Spaulding.
- PAGE 106 - ENDANGERED OLD GROWTH FORESTS
- Falling to the chain saw at the rate of 170 acres a day, the virgin
woodlands of the Pacific Northwest - with their dependent communities of
plants and wildlife - have become a battleground for loggers and
environmentalists. As the world decries the destruction of rain forest
in the tropics, Rowe Findley and James P. Blair find Americans asking, "Will
we save our own?"
Other noteworthy articles,
comments, advertisements:
- A brief short article on a Geography Bee "host Alex Trebek asked the final
"sudden death" question of the 1990 National Geography Bee: "Mount Erebus is a
volcano on which continent?" What is unique is that he asked a
question, usually he has all of the answers!
- 1/4 announcement for Dr. Mary Leakey special lecture at Rutgers
University on The Human Career: Our Biological & Cultural Origins
October 20th 1990
- Full page ad on "The Tsar Saltan Art Box" imported from Russia by Ardleigh
Elliott & Sons Merchant Appraisers.
- 4 page AT&T Official Sponsor Ellis Island ad.
- Obviously the New York article has pictures of the World Trade Center, one
of them is two page and it's a reflection of Trinity Church and one of the WTC
buldings taken off the hood of a black limousine. Another
photograph is even more interesting, Betty Boop in a Macy Thanksgiving day
parade with a sleazy background. A picture of a group of Santa's in the
subway. Some of the pictures of Broadway plays include: Jerome
Robbins' Broadway, Cats, Les Miserables, The article also has
aerial picture of Lyndhurst in Westchester County and 3 ladies in the Sleepy
Hollow Country Club.
- In the Earth Almanac (small paragraph articles) there is one on El
Lobo, Canis lupus baileyi. This is the Mexican wolf that is being
reintroduced in New Mexico and Texas. There is brief mention of a
flexible ceramic fabric being used on the Exxon Valdez oil spill;
cleaned up 15,000 gallons of 11 million in Prince William Sound Alaska.
The other article is on the Narmada River water project to build about 30
dams. The other articles are: "Blue Planet" A Smithsonian IMAX movie
with quotations by Col. James Buchli, Shuttle Discovery; California
Voters Weigh environment plan; Solar Sails will power ships to a new world.
The last one mentions "a fleet of spaceships to Mars" to be launched in 1992.
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