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Map Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers Map of the United States, exhibiting post roads & distances

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Title

  • Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers

Other Title

  • Map of the United States, exhibiting post roads & distances

Names

  • Bradley, Abraham, 1767-1838.
  • Harrison, William, 1774-
  • Barker, W. (William), active 1795-1803.

Created / Published

  • [Philadelphia?] : Abraham Bradley, Junr., [1796]

Headings

  • -  United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Post roads--United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Post office stations and branches--United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  United States--Maps
  • -  United States

Genre

  • Road maps
  • Early maps

Notes

  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  In upper left margin: Deposited as the Act directs September 26, 1796.
  • -  Wheat & Brun 1978 revised edition, 129
  • -  State III of the map, according to Wheat & Brun.
  • -  Prime meridian: Washington.
  • -  Includes chart showing "Progress of the mail on the main line".
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  LC copy sectioned into 32 pieces and mounted on cloth to facilitate folding.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand colored ; 91 x 98 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3700 1796 .B73

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015591093

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bradley, Abraham, William Harrison, and W Barker. Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers. [Philadelphia?: Abraham Bradley, Junr, 1796] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015591093/.

APA citation style:

Bradley, A., Harrison, W. & Barker, W. (1796) Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers. [Philadelphia?: Abraham Bradley, Junr] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015591093/.

MLA citation style:

Bradley, Abraham, William Harrison, and W Barker. Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers. [Philadelphia?: Abraham Bradley, Junr, 1796] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015591093/>.