Collection Items
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MapA new and correct plan of the town of Boston. Relief shown pictorially. From the Gentlemen's Magazine, October 1775, volume 45. LC copy imperfect: lacking small part of upper left corner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapBoston, its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against that town in 1775, Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 911 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 650/2; 650/3; 651/4; 650/5
- Contributor: Page, Thomas Hyde
- Date: 1775-01-01
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Map[Manuscript map of British and American troop positions in the New York City region at the time of the Battle of Long Island (Aug.-Sept. 1776)]. Covers present-day New York City vicinity including Staten Island, Palisades area (N.J.), New Rochelle (N.Y.), and Jamaica Bay. Shows troop positions, fortifications, ship anchorage areas, roads, built-up areas, villages, and agricultural field areas. Relief shown by shading, hachures, and landform drawings. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Title devised by cataloger. Map appears to be a composite copied from the DesBarres sheets of the...
- Date: 1776-01-01
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MapA map of Philadelphia and parts adjacent : with a perspective view of the State-House
Perspective view of the State-House Rural buildings shown pictorially with occupants' names. First state of the 1st ed. (without the name "West Jersey" at lower right). Signed in ink on cloth backing: Alex. Stuart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, distance table, and ground-level view of the Statehouse (later Independence Hall). Purchased with funding support from J. Thomas Touchton, Mr....- Contributor: Hebert, L. - Heap, George - Scull, Nicholas
- Date: 1752-01-01
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MapPiano della città , e porto di Sant'. Agostino. Scale ca. 1:47,000. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in feet. Oriented with north to the right. Appears in Il Gazzettiere americano, 1763, v. 1 and Atlante dell' America, 1777. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1640 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Vanni, Violante - Pazzi, Giuseppe
- Date: 1763-01-01