Map Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania : from original surveys
About this Item
Title
- Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania : from original surveys
Names
- Bowen, John S.
- Yeager, E. (Edward)
Created / Published
- [Philadelphia? : s.n.], 1847.
Headings
- - Chester County (Pa.)--Maps
- - Landowners--Pennsylvania--Chester County--Maps
- - Landowners--Pennsylvania--West Chester--Maps
- - Real property--Pennsylvania--West Chester--Maps
- - West Chester (Pa.)--Maps
- - United States--Pennsylvania--Chester County
- - United States--Pennsylvania--West Chester
Notes
- - General-content county map also showing rural buildings and householders' names; larger real-property tracts with owners' names shown only in West Chester borough inset.
- - Relief shown by hachures.
- - Prime meridian: Washington D.C.
- - "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen ... in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
- - Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries and territories.
- - LC copy 1 imperfect: Darkened, fold-lined, quartered to fold to 54 x 62 cm., has ghost title (reversed) at head of printed title; copy 2 incomplete, rubber-stamped, annotated.
- - LC Land ownership maps, 723
- - Includes note, statistical table, "Borough of West Chester" inset, and inset of the Newark triangle (later transferred to New Castle County, Del.).
- - 2 copies
Medium
- 1 map : hand col., cloth backing ; 95 x 112 cm., folded to 54 x 62 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- G3823.C5 1847 .P3
- G3823.C5 1847 .P3 Copy 2 Not hand col. (black-and-white), on 2 sheets, missing NE and SE sheets.
Repository
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2012592159
Online Format
- image