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Collection[Maps of Pennsylvania--counties Lancaster 1760-1859]
Pennsylvania title collection--counties Lancaster 1760-1859 Most maps before 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps covering counties of Pennsylvania, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These...- Date: 1760-01-01
- Resource: Pennsylvania, Drawer 80 maps folder covers - 8 pages
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MapA plan of the west line or parallel of latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pensylvania : a plan of the boundary lines between the province of ... "This map shows the original Mason-Dixon Line, traditionally thought of as the divide between North and South in the United States and, before the Civil War, between the slaveholding and non-slaveholding states. In the 1700s, a boundary dispute arose between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania. They agreed to resolve the dispute by having two English astronomers, Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon...
- Contributor: Mason, Charles - Smither, James - Dixon, Jeremiah - Kennedy, Robert
- Date: 1768
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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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MapTo the mayor, recorder, aldermen, Common Council, and freemen of Philadelphia this plan of the improved part of the city, surveyed and laid down by the late Nicholas Scull Esqr., Surveyor General ... Scale ca. 1:6,100. Title in upper margin: Philadelphia 100 years ago. Facsimile. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Pictorial map. The original "Published according to Act of Parliament Novr. 1st 1762 and sold by the Editor's Matthew Clarkson and M. Biddle in Philadelphia." Includes index to points of interest and insets "A" and "B." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site...
- Contributor: Miller & Moss - Biddle, Mary - Clarkson, Matthew - Scull, Nicholas
- Date: 1762-01-01
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Collection[Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns A-Allentown to 1939]
Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 103 | Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns A-Allentown to 1939 Most maps in this collection before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These...- Date: 1762-01-01
- Resource: Pennsylvania, Drawer 103 maps folder covers - 58 pages
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MapTo the mayor, recorder, aldermen, common council, and freemen of Philadelphia this plan of the improved part of the city surveyed and laid down by the late Nicholas Scull, Scale ca. 1:4,900. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes illus. of ships in the river, index to points of interest, and insets "A" and "B." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651; 700
- Contributor: Biddle, Mary - Clarkson, Matthew - Scull, Nicholas
- Date: 1762-01-01
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Collection[Maps of Pennsylvania--regions Monongehala 1851-1970--R]
Alternate supplied title: Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 50 | Alternate supplied title: Pennsylvania title collection--regions Monongehala 1889-1896--R | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 50 | Pennsylvania title collection--regions Monongehala 1889-1896--R Most maps in this collection before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps covering regions of Pennsylvania, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These...- Date: 1763-01-01
- Resource: Pennsylvania, Drawer 50 maps folder covers - 22 pages
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MapPlan and perspective view of Pittsburgh. Scale not given. Date from dealers catalog: [1760-70] Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC copy incomplete: Lower left and right sections missing. Includes index to points of interest and illus. Oriented with north to the left, not towards the upper right as shown by compass rose. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1330 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
- Contributor: Day, E. A.
- Date: 1760-01-01
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Map[Braddock's route, 1755, Fort Cumberland to Fort Pitt. Scale 1:316,800; 5 mi. to an in. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown pictorially. In pencil: Braddock's rout 1755. Shows "Genl. Braddock field," but the route is via Fort Burd, built in 1759. The Monongahela River is extensively mapped. "No. 22. Case C, no. 1." Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
- Date: 1760-01-01