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Map Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania : from original surveys

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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

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Chicago citation style:

Bowen, John S, and E Yeager. Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania: from original surveys. [Philadelphia?: s.n, 1847] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012592159/.

APA citation style:

Bowen, J. S. & Yeager, E. (1847) Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania: from original surveys. [Philadelphia?: s.n] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012592159/.

MLA citation style:

Bowen, John S, and E Yeager. Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania: from original surveys. [Philadelphia?: s.n, 1847] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012592159/>.