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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

NAS CHANCELLOR VANDERBILT RVING FISH PROFESSOR YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, O EDITOR IN CHIEF IN CHIEF - REYNOLDS FRANCIS J. ZIAN, LIBRARY FORMER REFERENCE LIBRARIAN IG EDITOR MANAGING CHURCHILL ALLEN L. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR THE NEW ING EDITOR CONTRIBUTING J. W. DUFFIELD UFFIELD THE NEW YORK EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE ONNICHSEN ALBERT CORRESPONDE ECONOMIST, WAR T. C. SILAFFER HAFFER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF HISTORY B. II. GOLDSMITH LDSMITH EDITOR, ECONOMIST CONOMIST ITZPATRICK BENEDICT FORMERLY LITERARY EDITOR TOR OF THE LO LOY SMITH C. E. MELOY CONSULTING E DREXEL INSTITUTE, HERSON E. D. PIERSON DENT LONDON EDITOR, CORRESPONDENT GIBSON J. B. GIBSON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY J. L. FRENCH FRENCH AUTHOR EDITOR, AUTHOR NEILSON, CHAIRMAN , NORTHAMPTON, MASS. WAR COLLEGE, NEWPORT, R. I. H. ODELL DELAWARE, WILMINGTON, DEL. C. M. SILLS , BRUNSWICK, ME. S. CANBY , NEW YORK, N. Y. COUNCILMAN MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MASS. F. THWING UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND, OHIO GREENLAW , CHAPEL HILL, N. C. KIRKLAND UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN. IRVING FISHER NEW HAVEN. CONN. REYNOLDS , LIBRARY OF CONGRESS EDITOR CHURCHILL INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITORS NEW YORK TIMES SONNICIISEN CORRESPONDENT FITZPATRICK OF THE LONDON MAIL SMITH CONSULTING ENGINEER LONDON TIMES List of Illustrations CITY OF NEW YORK-Colored Frontispiece Opposite page 36 LONDON-HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON-TRANSPORTATION GUIDE LONDON-A HEAVY FOG LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND LUCKNOW, INDIA LUMBER INDUSTRY, NEW BRUNSWICK LUMBER INDUSTRY, TASMANIA LUSITANIA Opposite page 132 MADEIRA MADRID, SPAIN MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MAORIS, NEW ZEALAND MATTERHORN MEXICO-TEMPLE OF THE SUN MEXICO-INTERIOR OF RUIN MEXICO-AZTEC ORNAMENT MEXICO-AZTEC MONUMENT Opposite page 260 MT. MCKINLEY MICHIGAN COPPER INDUSTRY MISSISSIPPI RIVER PORT (MEMPHIS) MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT MISSISSIPPI RIVER DOCK MONTREAL, CANADA MONT BLANC AVALANCHE MORRO CASTLE, CUBA Opposite page 372 NAPOLEON-TOMB IN PARIS NAPLES, ITALY NATIONAL CEMETERY, ARLINGTON NEW YORK-WEST STREET NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA NIAGARA FALLS NICKEL MINE IN CANADA ASSOUAN DAM, NILE RIVER Opposite page 420 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK MT. RAINIER NATIONAL PARK GLACIER NATIONAL PARK MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK GRAND CAÑON NATIONAL PARK RAINBOW BRIDGE Opposite page 452 NAVY-BATTLESHIP TENNESSEE ELECTRIC CONTROL OF BATTLESHIP RUDDER CONTROL NORTH CAROLINA TYPE BATTLESHIP SUBMARINE-RECENT TYPE NEW YORK-GOVERNOR'S ISLAND NEW YORK-ELLIS ISLAND STOCK EXCHANGE, NEW YORK COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK NEW YORK, BEDLOE'S ISLAND List of Maps NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM List NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA MANITOBA PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS MARYLAND, DELAWARE, AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT MASSACHUSETTS NEW JERSEY SEE AUSTRALIA MELINESIA - AND DISTRICT MELINESIA NEW MEXICO MEXICO NEW YORK MICHIGAN NEW ZEALAND MINNESOTA NORTHERN ASIA - SEE ASIA, MISSISSIPPI NORTH CAROLINA MISSOURI NORTH DAKOTA MONTANA NORWAY AND SWEDEN MONTENEGRO - SEE TURKEY IN EU- ROPE, SERBIA, BULGARIA, RUMANIA, NOVA SCOTIA - SEE NEW Nor MONTENEGRO AND GREECE

What Has Changed in the Last Century

This is not an article but a stray piece of Collier's own front matter from 1921 — the title-page list of editors and the list of illustrations and maps — caught by the scanner and given a heading from the broken word "University." As a document of 1921 it has dated in every particular: its consulting economist Irving Fisher of Yale, then the most famous economist in America, saw his reputation collapse after he insisted in 1929 that stocks were sound; its plates of the battleships Tennessee and North Carolina type advertise a class of warship made obsolete by carrier aviation in the 1940s; and its map list still needs entries for Montenegro and Serbia, which vanished into Yugoslavia in 1918 and only re-emerged as separate states in 2006. The eight national parks illustrated were then nearly the whole roster; the United States now has more than sixty.

Written for this edition, 2026.