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Digital Image: 1903 S.F. Van Oss Railroad Map of the United States Promoting Dutch Investment
Spoorwegen-vanoss-1903_d
Title
Kaart der Noord Amerikaansche Spoorwegen.
1903 (dated) 35 x 49.5 in (88.9 x 125.73 cm) 1 : 4000000
1903 (dated) 35 x 49.5 in (88.9 x 125.73 cm) 1 : 4000000
Description
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Cartographer
Salomon Frederik van Oss (April 10, 1868 - January 31, 1949) was a Dutch journalist, publisher, and banker. Van Oss was born in Vierlingsbeek to a wealthy Jewish family. He became a freelance correspondent for Algemeen Handelsblad in 1888 and began working in London, where he also found work writing for other magazines. He wrote about various subjects, but soon, financial matters became more and more of a focus. He traveled North America from early 1890 until the summer of 1892, and when he returned to Europe, he was viewed as an American railways specialist. He traveled to South Africa in 1895 to investigate the true value of the gold mines there. He moved back to the Netherlands in 1902 and became the editor-in-chief of De niece Financier en Kapitalist, a Dutch magazine on financial subjects published from 1877 until 1940 by P. Noordhoff. He published the first edition of Van Oss's effectenboek in 1903. (It continued to be published annually until 1978.) One of his significant investments was in the Oklahoma Central Railroad. Vanoss, an unincorporated town in Oklahoma along the old Oklahoma Central route, is named after him. Van Oss continued to write and publish throughout the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and founded a publishing firm in 1923. He survived World War II because of his marriage to a non-Jewish woman but lost control of all his businesses. He wrote fiction and nonfiction during the war. More by this mapmaker...