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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London." Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter - Sayer, Robert
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapThe State of Maryland, Scale ca. 1:770,000. Meridians: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. In upper center margin: Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved. LC copy imperfect: Hole in center along fold line. LC copy annotated in pencil with various dates. Includes inset "Continuation of the Potowmac River, from Fort Cumberland." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2:...
- Contributor: Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William - Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew
- Date: 1795-01-01
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Map[Maps of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary used as trial exhibits in the 1735 court suit brought by the Penns against Lord Baltimore to determine the official interprovincial boundary line]. The maps also cover the Lower Counties (now the State of Delaware) which at the time were part of Pennsylvania. The "Virginia" map shows lines of latitude (identified) and longitude (unidentified). Common title devised by cataloger. Annotated in ink handwriting on recto by Ferdinand J. Paris (attorney for the Penn Family). The "Virginia" map is oriented with north to the right. Hand col. (light...
- Contributor: Paris, Ferdinand John - Senex, John
- Date: 1732-01-01
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MapCæcil County, Maryland, 1776 Catalog Record Only Shows roads, old trees, foundries, rolling mills, forges, and movements of military forces. Includes index of historic sites, col. ill., and county insigne.
- Contributor: Cecil County Bicentennial Committee - Adams, Frank L.
- Date: 1776
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MapA plan of the west line or parallel of latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pensylvania : a plan of the boundary lines between the province of ... "This map shows the original Mason-Dixon Line, traditionally thought of as the divide between North and South in the United States and, before the Civil War, between the slaveholding and non-slaveholding states. In the 1700s, a boundary dispute arose between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania. They agreed to resolve the dispute by having two English astronomers, Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon...
- Contributor: Mason, Charles - Smither, James - Dixon, Jeremiah - Kennedy, Robert
- Date: 1768
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London." Appears in Thomas Jefferys' The American atlas. 1775. Three copies. Copy 1, outlined in yellow, green,...
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter - Sayer, Robert
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapA new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey.
New map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Relief shown pictorially. Watermarks: AB; [fleur-de-lis]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copies imperfect: Fold-lined, torn at fold line, mounted on cloth backing. Statement of dedication at foot of title: Most humbly inscrib'd to the Right Hon. the Earl of Orkney &ct., Knight of ye most Noble and Anciet [sic] Order of ye Thistle. Includes embellished...- Contributor: Senex, John
- Date: 1719-01-01
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MapDominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali. Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 83 Differs from other copies in Québec and New England states boundaries. Includes text and glossary. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm)
- Date: 1759-01-01
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ..." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1428 Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye. 1st. 1755." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapPlan of the town of Baltimore and it's environs : dedicated to the citizens of Baltimore : taken upon the spot Relief shown by hachures. Includes a figurative cartouche and illustrations of boats in the water. Indexed to points of interest. LC copy inscribed: Presented by Robt Bruce Fowler, December 14, 1841. Also mounted on cloth and annotated in pencil. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 522 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
- Contributor: Folie, A. P. - Poupard, James
- Date: 1792
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MapA new and accurate chart of the Bay of Chesapeake, with all the shoals, channels, islands, entrances, soundings, and sailing-marks, as far as the navigable part of the rivers Patowmack, Patapsco and ... Scale ca. 1:250,000. Soundings shown in fathoms. "Drawn from several draughts made by the most experienced navigators, chiefly from those of Anthony Smith, pilot of St. Marys; and compared with the modern surveys of Virginia and Maryland." LC copy trimmed and mounted on cloth. From the author's North-American pilot. 1776. v. 2. Includes sailing directions, "Observations on the northeast current on the coast of...
- Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
- Date: 1776-01-01
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MapThe State of Maryland from the best authorities. Scale ca. 1:770,000. LC copy annotated in black ink. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Inset: Continuation of the Potowmac River, from Fort Cumberland. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1; 700/2; 700/3
- Contributor: Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William - Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew
- Date: 1795-01-01
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MapPlan of Annapolis, 25 July 1718 Catalog Record Only Blueprint. Shows landowners. Map is a copy made by A. Trader, from the original map located in the Office of Communications of the Land Office of Maryland. Includes notes. Original version: [Annapolis, Md.] : Office of Communications of the Land Office of Maryland, 1718.
- Date: 1718
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MapMap of the State of Maryland laid down from an actual survey of all the principal waters, public roads, and divisions of the counties therein; describing the situation of the cities, towns, ... Scale ca. 1:300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes "Plan of the city of Washington and Territory of Columbia" and a dedication. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Griffith, Dennis - Vallance, J. (John) - Thackara, James
- Date: 1794-01-01
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MapMap of the maritime parts of Virginia exhibiting the seat of war and of Ld. Dunmore's depredations in that colony. Scale ca. 1:700,000. Hand colored. "For the Pennsa. Mag. p. 184." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1442 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Aitken, Robert - Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène
- Date: 1776-01-01
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Scale ca. 1:650,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye 1st. 1755." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1427 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapDominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali. Scales differ. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. From the authors' Atlas geographicvs maior, 1753-59 [i.e. 1781, v. 1, 1759] v. 1, no. 141. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 83 Differs from other copies in Long Island boundary coloration. Includes text and glossary. Available also through...
- Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm)
- Date: 1759-01-01
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Catalog Record Only Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ..." Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye. 1st. 1755." Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 651/3; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter
- Date: 1755
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MapPotomack Covers the Potomac River (estuary and river), its tributaries, and the Rappahannock River. Also covers "The Northern Neck of Virginia". Title from annotation on verso. Gift; Robert Lee Brown, Woodville, Va.; October 1973. Manuscript: pen-and-ink. Condition imperfect: Torn at fold lines, missing small internal sections at fold lines and at sheet edges, formerly taped. Accompanied by carbon-copy of LC letter of acceptance addressed to...
- Contributor: Booth, Robert
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London." LC copy annotated: Scale - miles 10 1/3 = in. 1. Includes distance chart. Available also...
- Contributor: Fry, Joshua - Jefferys, Thomas - Jefferson, Peter - Sayer, Robert
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapA map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with part of New Jersey &c. Shows provinces, coastal towns and a few frontier settlements, Indian villages and tribal territory, English "Factories" among the Indians, mines, rivers, numerous place-names. Covers also part of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Relief shown by contours. From the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle (July, 1755), vol. 24. Prime meridian: London. Appears to be based on the work of John Mitchell. LC Maps of North...
- Contributor: Baldwin, R. (Robert)
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapA new and accurate map of Virginia & Maryland : laid down from surveys and regulated astronl. observatns. Plate no. 61 of the author's A complete atlas, or distinct views of the world. 1752. Phillips 614 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; From the collection of Dr. Gerald D. Aurbach, given in his memory by his wife, Hanna, and daughters, Elissa and Pamela. Vault Acquisitions control no. 94-25
- Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
- Date: 1752-01-01
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MapPlan of Charles Town, Maryland. Cadastral survey map showing lot/tract lines, lot numbers, public lands, street names, and some acreages. Relief shown by form lines. Also shows "The Lord Properiators [sic] two lots." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (dark brown). Original sheet and backing hemmed by cloth strips at the 4 edges. Imperfect: Mottled, fold-lined, missing small sections at sheet edges/fold lines. Includes notes and...
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapThe British central frontier during the French & Indian War : showing forts of the colonies and of the settlers along the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia circa 1758 Catalog Record Only Drawn in a style to resemble an antique map. Includes text, index of forts, distance lists for extant roads/forts, and embellished title cartouche with coats-of-arms.
- Contributor: Fort Edwards Foundation - Hall, Charles C.
- Date: 1758
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Map[Map of New Castle County, Del. and portions of Cecil and Kent Counties, Md. showing the area from New Castle, Del. to Chestertown, Md.] Catalog Record Only Title supplied by cataloger. In bottom right corner: British Museum, Additional MS. 21686. Accompanied by negative photocopy and copy of letter (describing the map) from Elwood Wilkins to the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. Original version: Manuscript map, approximately 1764, British Museum.
- Date: 1764