Poates, Leonard L. (sold)
Leonard L. Poates (c. 1860 - October 8, 1938) was an American engraver and publisher. Poates founded the L. L. Poates Engraving Company in New York City sometime in the 1910s. By 1921, Poates was living in Long Beach, California, with his wife Ida L. Kallenbach. They were married for fifty-three years and Leonard died on the fiffty-third wedding anniversary.
The Mexican Central Railway the year before it became part of the Ferrocarriles Nacionales.
Mexico. Map of the Mexican Central Railway and Connections.
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This is a c. 1908 Leonard L. Poates map of Mexico and the Mexican Central Railway - illustrating Mexico on the cusp of the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920). At the time, foreign investment was flooding into Mexico, much of which went to finance major infrastructure projects - like the Mexican Central. The operation of the Mexican Central Railroad provided a major artery of trade, both within Mexico and internationally with the United States - an artery that would soon be uprooted by revolution. (more details)