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  • Map
    Map of St. Helena Sound, and the coast between Charleston and Savannah Shows forts, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, and islands. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368.1 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: A. Williams & Co
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Collection
    [Maps of Maine--various subjects Coasts 1775-1968]
    Maine title collection--drawer 12 | Maine title collection--various subjects Coasts 1775-1968
    This record covers single maps of coasts of Maine which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. To request a specific map or for more information, contact a reference...

  • Map
    Pilot chart of the coast of Brazil
    Coast of Brazil
    Shows prevailing wind direction by month. "This chart is on the plan of Pilot Chart North Atlantic. The only difference between the two is that in the North Atlantic, the wind-roses occupy each a space of Ocean 5' square. On this the wind-rose occupies a space of 1' of longitude by 2' of latitude. The arrangement of the months, courses, winds, and calms, is...
    • Contributor: United States. Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography - United States. Hydrographic Office - United States Naval Observatory - Sherman & Smith - Maury, Matthew Fontaine
    • Date: 1854-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the cost [sic] of Georgia & Florida. Scale 1:253,440; 1/4 in. to 1 mile. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. Covers the coast between Savannah and St. Augustine. Shows swamps and marshes. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 129.7 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell)
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Collection
    [Maps of Hawaii--islands I-K]
    Alternate supplied title: Hawaii title collection drawer 12 | Alternate supplied title: Hawaii title collection--islands I-K | Alternate supplied title: Hawaiian islands title collection I-K
    This record covers single maps covering islands of Hawaii, separately or in groups, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps show islands of Hawaii, as well...
    • Date: 1885-01-01
  • Map
    Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most ...
    Sea-atlas, containing an hydrographical description of the sea-coasts of most of the known parts of the world
    Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by manuscript note from the dealer, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles dated Nov. 4, 1909 (on sheet 26 x 21 cm., folded in...
    • Contributor: Thornton, John
    • Date: 1700-01-01

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    Metomkin Inlet, Virginia. Scale 1:20,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 584.4 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1864). Map 16. "No. 16" is in the upper left corner. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Chart of the coast of Maine 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...
    • Contributor: Porter, Seward - T. Moore's Lithography - Moody
    • Date: 1837-01-01

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    Cape Henlopen and the Delaware Breakwater Scale 1:20,000. Title in lower margin: Delaware Breakwater. Facsim. of nautical chart originally "Published at Washington, D.C., November 1901 ..." Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. "Polyconic projection." "American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976." "Plate no. 2710." "BiC-54." Includes sailing information. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 110; 650/2; 651/3; 710/1
    • Contributor: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - National Ocean Survey
    • Date: 1976-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the coast of Georgia, bordering on Camden and Glynn counties, showing also the course and soundings of the Alatamaha, Turtle, Crooked, St. Mary's, Great Satilla, and Little Satilla rivers.] Scale ca. 1:70,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC copy imperfect: lower right corner missing. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. Shows landowners. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1597 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Date: 1780-01-01
  • Map
    Coast of North Carolina & Virginia Scale 1:200,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 305a.2 At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supt. Map is printed in two sheets which have been joined together to form a continuous map. The northern sheet measures 57 x 84 cm., and the southern sheet measures 68 x 84 cm. Map of the coast from Hampton, Virginia, to Old Cedar Inlet,...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    [Map showing coast of Mexico from Vera Cruz to Chuxula] Depths shown by soundings. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black and red inks on tracing paper. Includes notes. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 586 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Copy 2 has border: 33 x 49 cm.
    • Contributor: Lee, S. P.
    • Date: 1847-01-01
  • Map
    [Coast of Rhode Island and Long Island from Narragansett Bay to Peconic Bay Scale ca. 1:115,000. Relief shown by hachures. Soundings shown in feet. Shows coast of most of Rhode Island, small portion of Connecticut, and part of Long Island from Narragansett Bay to Peconic Bay. LC copy imperfect: Incomplete, deterioration along fold, and brittle on edges. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1005 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
    • Date: 1779
  • Map
    Sketch of sea coast of South Carolina and Georgia from Bull's Bay to Ossabaw Sound Signed in ink on front and back "Millard Fillmore, Dec. 6, 1864" LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 364.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of "References" to Civil War engagements.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Molitor, E. - Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map showing the Island of Formosa and the adjoining coast of China. "(1100. 2/85. 1143) [73.3. F.O.]." Shows Taiwan and the coast of China from Hongkong to Foochow. Original version: [London] : Harrison & Sons Lith., [1885?]. Facsimile. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1978-01-01
  • Map
    Philippine Islands "Apr. 1933--Reissued 1940." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. In lower left margin: 33--4/28, 35--4/17, 40--2/17. In upper left margin: No. 4200. LC copy includes hand-written notes and sailing routes drawn in red pencil. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; John Bernard Kinnicutt III; 08-06-2004.
    • Contributor: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Veterans History Project (U.S.) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Map
    Coast of North Carolina & Virginia Scale 1:200,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 305a.3 Another edition. At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supt. Map is printed in two sheets which have been joined together to form a continuous map. The northern sheet measures 57 x 84 cm., and the southern sheet measures 68 x 84 cm. Map of the coast from Hampton, Virginia, to Old...
    • Contributor: Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Maps of East and West Florida. Scale ca. 1:500,000. Cover title. Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of printed maps: Florida and its vicinity. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "To the Marine Society of the city of New York ...; To the hon'ble, the planters in Jamaica ...; To all commanders of vessels round the globe ... " Drawn in 1774, but was not published until 1781,...
    • Contributor: Romans, Bernard
    • Date: 1781-01-01
  • Map
    Part of Long Island; and the coast eastward to the shoals of Nantucket. Scale ca. 1:600,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Has watermarks. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes view of "Sancoty Head S.S.W. 10 miles distant." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 824 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 650/2
    • Contributor: Knight, John
    • Date: 1778-01-01
  • Map
    The coast of the United States : sheet no. 2 from Cape Lookout to Cape Carnaveral [i.e. Canaveral] from the U.S. Coast Surveys.
    South coast of U.S., Cape Hatteras to Cape Carnaveral [i.e. Canaveral]
    Cape Hatteras, and not Cape Lookout, is the northernmost point shown on coast. Depths shown by soundings. Includes navigational notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Copy imperfect: Torn, stained, darkened, creased, annotated in pencil and ink.
    • Contributor: E. & G.W. Blunt (Firm)
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Map
    An actual survey of the sea coast from New York to the I. Cape Briton, with tables of the direct and thwart courses & distances from place to place. Scale ca. 1:590,000. Shows longitude east and west from Boston. Soundings in feet. Includes tables, distance charts, and insets of New York, Boston and Halifax harbors, Casco Bay and Annapolis Royal, and "A map of the British Empire in America." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 651/3; 651/4; 710
    • Contributor: Southack, Cyprian - Jno. Mount and Tho. Page
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    [Westchester County coast, New Rochelle to Horseneck River: unfinished. Scale ca. 1:96,000. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Has watermark. An unfinished sketch with pencil construction lines, some names pencilled in, and notes only partially legible. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1097 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2 Changed title from [Long Island coast, New Rochelle...]....
    • Date: 1776-01-01
  • Map
    Sketch of sea coast of South Carolina and Georgia from Bull's Bay to Ossabaw Sound Scale 1:200,000. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Hand colored. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 363 LC copy annotated in ink in cover. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of "References" to Civil War engagements. AACR2
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Molitor, E. - Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America : with the tracks of His Majesty's sloop Discovery and armed tender Chatham Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. In upper right corner: 5. Insets: Entrance of Columbia River -- Gray's Harbour -- Port Discovery. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Robinson, G. G. (George G.) - Warner, John - Vancouver, George - Baker, Joseph - Edwards, James
    • Date: 1798-01-01
  • Map
    Borneo coastal terrain Identifies coastal districts as mountains, swamps, marshes, tidal sand flats, tidal mud flats, or tidal coral flats. Covers entire island (including Sarawak and Sabah) Relief shown by shading. LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, annotated in black marker ink/lead-pencil, possibly prepared for inclusion in textual publication. Includes descriptive text in legend. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Janis (Organization)
    • Date: 1945-01-01