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Image ID: 1253194
A chart of Delaware Bay and River / from the original by Mr. Fisher of Philadelphia, 1776.
([1779])
Image Details
Image Title
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A chart of Delaware Bay and River / from the original by Mr. Fisher of Philadelphia, 1776.
Creator
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Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783 -- Cartographer
Published Date
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[1779]
Item Physical Description
: 1 map ; 19 x 24 cm.
Notes
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Copy in Map Div. 00-498: Emmet Collection.
Note 2.)
Emmet Collection ; 3339.
Note 3.)
From Gentleman's magazine, July 1779.
Note 4.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 5.)
Oriented with north to the right.
Note 6.)
Shows various ship channels from the mouth of Delaware Bay to Philadelphia.
Standard Reference
: LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1372; EM3339; Jolly, D.C. Maps of America in periodicals before 1800, 329
Source
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Cartographic materials from the Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating to American History.
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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