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Map Post route map of the states of Virginia and West Virginia : showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of March, 1906

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Title

  • Post route map of the states of Virginia and West Virginia : showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of March, 1906

Names

  • United States. Post Office Dept.
  • Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940.
  • Daniel, Raleigh T. (Raleigh Travers), 1805-1877.

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.] : Postmaster General, [1906]

Headings

  • -  Postal service--Virginia--Maps
  • -  Postal service--West Virginia--Maps
  • -  Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia
  • -  United States--West Virginia

Notes

  • -  Annotated by Capt. Raleigh Travers Daniel, Office of the Secretary of Military Records of the Commonwealth of Virginia between 1909 and 1910. Prepared to accompany a manuscript guidebook to Virginia Civil War battlefields. Maps originally in Series III. Miscellaneous Records. Guide to Battlefields of Virginia and West Virginia, accession 27684.
  • -  Includes indexes of counties and explanation of mail service, railroads, mail routes, mail messenger, post offices, and offices discontinued.
  • -  Sites of battles are indicated by red circles; skirmished are indicated by a rubber stamp with crossed swords in a red circle.
  • -  This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
  • -  Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 1943
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
  • -  April 1918, Va. Div. of Military Affairs, gift; Oct. 2003, Map Cataloging Team.

Medium

  • 1 map on 2 sheets : col., mounted on paper ; sheets 121 x 88 cm.

Repository

  • Library of Virginia Richmond, VA 23219-8000 USA vau For copies contact: Archives Research Services.

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

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Chicago citation style:

United States Post Office Dept, George B Cortelyou, and Raleigh T Daniel. Post route map of the states of Virginia and West Virginia: showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of March. [Washington, D.C.: Postmaster General, 1906] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/lva0000167/.

APA citation style:

United States Post Office Dept, Cortelyou, G. B. & Daniel, R. T. (1906) Post route map of the states of Virginia and West Virginia: showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of March. [Washington, D.C.: Postmaster General] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/lva0000167/.

MLA citation style:

United States Post Office Dept, George B Cortelyou, and Raleigh T Daniel. Post route map of the states of Virginia and West Virginia: showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of March. [Washington, D.C.: Postmaster General, 1906] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/lva0000167/>.