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MapA Map of the country round Philadelphia including part of New Jersey, New York, Staten Island, & Long Island. Scale ca. 1:1,625,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789 1041 "West longitude from London." From the Gentleman's magazine, v. 46, 1776. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies AACR2
- Date: 1776-01-01
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MapThe new war map of Virginia, Maryland & Pennsylvania. General map of the Middle Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay regions showing railroads, highways, and selected forts in eastern Virginia. Does not show Civil War battle locations or troop positions. Relief shown by hachures. Printed in brown. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy fold-lined. Acquisitions control no.: 91-52 CW3
- Contributor: Russell, B. B. (Benjamin B.)
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Map[The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting the several works erected by the rebels to defend its passage, with the attacks made upon them by His Majesty's land & ... Scale ca. 1:32,400. Title from the author's The course of Delaware River ... 1778. Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor. Shows soundings, disposition of ships, etc. Names "Fort Mifflin" and "Fort Mercer" added in a different hand. Includes "A sketch of Fort Island" and "Profile and plan of the sunk frames or chevaux de frise which formed the stockadoes in the river." LC...
- Contributor: Faden, William
- Date: 1777-01-01
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MapThe course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting the several works erected by the rebels to defend its passage, with the attacks made upon them by His Majesty's land & ... Scale ca. 1:33,200. Hand colored. Shows soundings and disposition of ships, etc. Includes "A sketch of Fort Island" and "Profile and plan of the sunk frames or chevaux de frise which formed the stackadoes in the river." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1362 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Faden, William
- Date: 1778-01-01
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MapPlan of part of western front. Scale ca. 1:600,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Title from verso. Shows northern Pennsylvania and western New York, detailed mapping showing numerous forts, Indian villages, and trails, is restricted to the Susquehanna Valley north of Sunbury Town. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1051 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Date: 1778-01-01
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MapAn accurate plan of the country between New York and Philadelphia : with the dispositions of the forces.
Bataille sur la route de New-York Ă Philadelphie en 1777 : Shows positions of British (red) and American (blue) forces along the major highways between New York City and Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. At foot of title: Extracted from the Gazette of Tuesday, Feb'y 25th 1777. "Published as the Act directs March 3d 1777 by S. Pyle, Angel Court, Snow Hill--price 6d." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes distance table. Available also through...- Contributor: Pyle, Stephen
- Date: 1777-01-01
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MapCaptain Snow's scetch of the country by himself, and the best accounts he could receive from the Indian traders.
Captain Snow's sketch of the country by himself, and the best accounts he could receive from the Indian traders Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Shows location of forts, western Pennsylvania, northern Virginia, northern Maryland, Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary line, and "Road to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, &ca." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1301 Includes historical notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2- Contributor: Snow
- Date: 1754-01-01
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MapCaptain Snow's sketch. Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown pictorially. Shows location of forts, western Pennsylvania, northern Virginia, northern Maryland, Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary line, and "Road to Philadelphia & Pensylvania, &c." Includes historical notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1302 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Snow
- Date: 1754-01-01
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MapMr. Armstrong's rough draft of the country to the west of Susquehanna. Scale ca. 1:800,000. Title from annotation on verso. Mounted on cloth backing, with reinforced edges. Watermarked. Relief shown pictorially. Shows central Pennsylvania and the location of "F. du Quesne" in western Pennsylvania. Also shows the road from Harrisburg to the Youghiogheny River. Includes 2 distance charts. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1303 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a...
- Contributor: Armstrong, John
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapA map of the province of Pensilvania Relief shown pictorially. Watermarked. Includes ill. in title cartouche. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 711 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies
- Contributor: Kitchin, Thomas - Baldwin, Richard
- Date: 1756-01-01
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MapTo the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs., true & absolute proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania & counties of New-Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware this map of ... Scale ca. 1:250,000. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing with reinforced edges. Relief shown pictorially. Shows county boundaries. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1294 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Turner, James - Davis, John - Scull, Nicholas
- Date: 1759-01-01
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Map[Survey of region embraced by Somerset, Bedford, and Fulton Counties and including Cumberland, Md. Scale 1:253,440; 4 miles to an in. Title from dealer's manuscript folder. Continued on verso. Manuscript, pen and ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Edges missing in places, some water damage causing writing to fade. Includes text and descriptive notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1300 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
- Contributor: Husbands, Hermon
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapTo the Honorable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esquires, true and absolute proprietaries and Governors of the Province of Pennsylvania and the territories thereunto belonging and to the Honorable John Penn, Esquire, ... Scale ca. 1:633,600. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Shows county boundaries. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1295 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 700/1
- Contributor: Nevil, James - Scull, William - Dawkins, Henry
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapA map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that Province, but also its extensive frontiers: Laid down from actual surveys and chiefly from the late map of W. Scull ... Scale ca. 1:365,000. Hand colored. LC copy mounted on cloth and paper backing. LC copy imperfect: Bottom and right margin deteriorated. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown pictorially. Shows county boundaries. Appears in Thomas Jefferys' The American atlas. 1775. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1296 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) - Scull, William
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapA new and accurate map of the Province of Pennsylvania, in North America : from the best authorities. Relief shown pictorially. Shows towns, roads, forts, rivers, streams, and waterfalls as far west as "Chambers Town." Includes adjacent part of New Jersey. From The London magazine: or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer (April, 1780), vol. 64. "West longitude from London." Accompanied by text: Historical and geographical description of the Province of Pennsylvania in North America. [8] p. ; 21 cm. Available also through the Library...
- Date: 1780-01-01
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MapA map of the land abt. Red Stone and Fort Pitt, Scale ca. 1:600,000. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown pictorially. The title, land tract boundaries with owners' initials, and some place names have been identified as annotations by George Washington made ca. 1780. The author and date of the manuscript map is not known; reference sources indicate between 1758 and 1771. Phillips. Maps of America p. 713 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,...
- Contributor: Crawford, William - Washington, George
- Date: 1780-01-01
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Map[Map of Pennsylvania and part of New Jersey]. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) on 2 sheets of tracing linen pasted together, sectioned in 3, and mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H157 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. In pencil on verso: 106.
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Map[Map of parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia covering areas from Harrisburg to Leesburg, and from Hancock to Baltimore]. Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Each sheet pasted together in 3 sections, sectioned in 2, and mounted on cloth. The manuscript original is at the Handley Library in Winchester, Virginia. Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H156 In ink in bottom right corner: No. 805....
- Date: 1863-01-01
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Map[Base map of Pennsylvania]. Shows names of counties, major cities and towns, rivers, and a lake. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, sectioned in 3, and mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H207 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
- Date: 1893-01-01
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MapGeneral Forbes' route on the march against Fort Du Quesne, 1758 : this map is a copy of the original map, "General Forbes' marching jurnal [sic] to the Ohio J. Potts" in ...
General Forbes' marching jurnal [sic] to the Ohio, J. Potts Shows the route westward in Pennsylvania from Loudon, via Littleton, Fort Bedford, Stony Brook, Fort Ligonier, Washington's Camp, to Pittsburgh (Ohio River). Relief shown pictorially. Title from westernmost panel. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (black) and graphite pencil. Relief shown pictorially. Indicates nature of the adjacent landscape along the hatched route line. The date of the final rendering of the route by Dr. McGowan is not known...- Contributor: McGowan, Wm. D. (William D.) - Potts, John - Forbes, John - Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Date: 1758-01-01
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MapMap of reconnaissance of the valley of Brandywine Creek : including the section from Smiths Bridge to the State Road Topographic map showing roads, railroad, bridges, fortifications, batteries, and various Revolutionary War sites along Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Pen-and-ink (black and red) and blue wash. Fold-lined crosswise in 3 places; lower fold line completely torn to separate lower panel; has adhesive paper label with inked no. "854 St 1863" in lower right corner; former owner's...
- Contributor: Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - United States Coast Survey - Whiting, Henry L.
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapMap of a route through south west Pennsylvania from Fort Loudon, Franklin Co. to Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh. Scale 1:380,160; 6 miles to an in. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 673. Variant title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection ... no. 12: A map of the country on the Ohio & Muskingum Rivers. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Shows location of forts and road improvements. Typed...
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapMap of one square mile or 1/25 of the battlefield of Gettysburg Scale ca. 1:2400. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351.4 At top of map: No. 3; Culp's Hill. Map title, legend, and a brief account of the "Work completed on United States property on this square by the Gettysburg National Park Commission," signed by E. B. Cope, Engineer, is attached to the map in the lower left corner. Detailed map of Culp's Hill, with...
- Contributor: Gettysburg National Military Park Commission
- Date: 1898-01-01
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MapUnited States property on the Gettysburg battlefield Scale 1:12,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351.9 "Number 256" is in the upper left corner. Hand-colored and annotated blueprint showing lands "Conveyed by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association," lands "purchased by the U.S.G.B. Commission and the G.N.P. Commission," and the land devoted to the National Cemetery. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster...
- Contributor: Gettysburg National Military Park Commission
- Date: 1898-01-01
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MapMap of the battlefield of Gettysburg Scale ca. 1:12,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351.6 "No. 1" is in the upper margin. Title and "Explanatory notes" are attached to the map in the lower left corner and a list of "Work on the field accomplished by this Commission to date" is attached to the map in the lower right corner. Map of the battlefield, with manuscript annotations and hand...
- Contributor: Gettysburg National Military Park Commission
- Date: 1898-01-01