Map Chart of the harbour of Chagres

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About this Item

Title

  • Chart of the harbour of Chagres

Names

  • Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849, cartographer, collector

Created / Published

  • [Panama] : David Bates Douglass, [1838?]

Headings

  • -  Harbors--Panama--Chagres--Maps
  • -  Chagres River (Panama)--Maps
  • -  Chagres (Panama)--Maps
  • -  Panama--Chargres

Genre

  • Manuscript maps

Notes

  • -  Covers the vicinity of the mouth of the Río Chagres and the location of the town of Chagres.
  • -  Also, shows coastline, coastal features, the river, the harbor, navigational hazards, a "line of fortifications", and pictorial representation of vegetation.
  • -  Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
  • -  Pen-and-ink on tracing linen and mounted.
  • -  Oriented with north to the right.
  • -  LC Luso-Hispanic World, 636
  • -  "This 1838 tracing is a copy of the ca. 1810 original printed map in an edition of Portulano de la America."--The LUSO-Hispanic World in Maps, page 181.
  • -  Includes note.
  • -  At upper left in black ink on verso: No. 12. Coll of Major David B. Douglass, abt 1838.
  • -  Imperfect: Varnish along the left margin.

Medium

  • 1 manuscript map ; 23 x 19 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G4874.C47P55 1838 .D6

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021586101

Online Format

  • image

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Douglass, David Bates, Cartographer, Collector. Chart of the harbour of Chagres. [Panama: David Bates Douglass, ?, 1838] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021586101/.

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Douglass, D. B. (1838) Chart of the harbour of Chagres. [Panama: David Bates Douglass, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021586101/.

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Douglass, David Bates, Cartographer, Collector. Chart of the harbour of Chagres. [Panama: David Bates Douglass, ?, 1838] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021586101/>.