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Map Map of Somerset County, Pa.

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Title

  • Map of Somerset County, Pa.

Names

  • Walker, Edward L. (Surveyor)
  • G.F. Schuchman & Co.

Created / Published

  • [Pittsburgh?] : Edward L. Walker, 1860.

Headings

  • -  Somerset County (Pa.)--Maps
  • -  Landowners--Pennsylvania--Somerset County--Maps
  • -  Villages--Pennsylvania--Somerset County--Maps
  • -  Real property--Pennsylvania--Somerset--Maps
  • -  Real property--Pennsylvania--Berlin--Maps
  • -  Somerset (Pa.)--Maps
  • -  Berlin (Pa.)--Maps
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Somerset County
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Somerset
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Berlin

Genre

  • Maps
  • Cadastral maps

Notes

  • -  General-content county map showing rural buildings and householders' names; the Somerset and Berlin insets show real-property tracts (lots), building coverage, and owners' names.
  • -  Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries, township territories, and inset maps.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  "Entered according to Act of Congress in the ... Western District of Penna., Sept. 6th 1860, by Edward L. Walker."
  • -  LC copy imperfect: Brittle, darkened, trimmed along outer vertical sheet edges, lettered in blue pencil on cloth backing: Somerset Pa.
  • -  Includes note, key to abbreviations, "Statistical table of Somerset County for 1860", local business directories, numerous ill. of local buildings, 2 portraits of local officials, 14 street-map insets of boroughs/villages, and commonwealth coat-of-arms.
  • -  LC Land ownership maps, 797
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  2 copies

Medium

  • 1 map on 4 sheets : hand col., cloth backing ; 108 x 130 cm., sheets 58 x 65 cm. and 58 x 68 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3823.S6 1860 .W3
  • G3823.S6 1860 .W3 Copy 2 On 2 sheets each folded to 58 x 52 cm., shellacked, cloth hemmed, trimmed to eliminate ill. along left/right edges, annotated in ink on cloth backing: 269 Sommersett [sic] Co. Penn.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012592183

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Walker, Edward L, and G.F. Schuchman & Co. Map of Somerset County, Pa. [Pittsburgh?: Edward L. Walker, 1860] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012592183/.

APA citation style:

Walker, E. L. & G.F. Schuchman & Co. (1860) Map of Somerset County, Pa. [Pittsburgh?: Edward L. Walker] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012592183/.

MLA citation style:

Walker, Edward L, and G.F. Schuchman & Co. Map of Somerset County, Pa. [Pittsburgh?: Edward L. Walker, 1860] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012592183/>.