Format Map
Contributors Porter, Seward
Dates 1837
Location Atlantic Coast
Maine
United States
Language English
Subjects Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Coast (Me.)
Coasts
Maine
Maps
Nautical Charts
United States
Title
Chart of the coast of Maine /
Contributor Names
Porter, Seward,
Created Published
[Bath, Me.?] : Seward Porter, [1837],
Subject Headings
-  Nautical charts--Maine.
-  Coasts--Maine--Maps.
-  Atlantic Coast (Me.)--Maps.
-  United States--Maine.
-  United States--Maine--Atlantic Coast.
Notes
-  Relief shown by hachures on some sheets. Depths shown by soundings on some sheets.
-  On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Capt. Seward Porter, in the year 1837, in the Clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
-  Some sheets lack geographic coordinates and bar scale.
-  Orientation varies.
-  Sheets numbered: No. 1 ... No. 9.
-  Ristow. American maps and mapmakers.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
-  Accompanied by: Chart of the coast of Maine, No. 10. 1 sheet : photocopy of ms. map with inset ; 44 x 71 cm.
-  Some sheets include ill. of ships.
-  LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Some LC sheets annotated in ink in margin.
Medium
9 Maps ; 53 X 75 Cm. Or Smaller, On Sheets 57 X 81 Cm. Or Smaller.
Call Number
G3732.C6P5 svar .P6
Repository
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
g3732c np000023 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3732c.np000023
g3732c np000024 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3732c.np000024
Library of Congress Catalog Number
86692266
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