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Image ID: 434088
The travellers pocket map of Virginia : with its canals, rail-roads & distances from place to place along the stage road...
([1830])
Image Details
Image Title
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The travellers pocket map of Virginia : with its canals, rail-roads & distances from place to place along the stage roads / by H.S. Tanner ; engraved by W. Brose, Philadelphia, 1830.
Creator
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Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858 -- Publisher
Additional Name(s)
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Brose, W. -- Engraver
Published Date
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[1830]
Item Physical Description
: 1 map : hand col. ; 26 x 33 cm. folded in leather cover 11 x 7 cm.
Notes
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"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1830 by H.S. Tanner in the Clerks Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Note 2.)
Includes "Profile of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal" and tables of steamboat routes and distances between Richmond and other cities, and between Wheeling and other cities.
Note 3.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 4.)
Prime meridian: Washington D.C.
Note 5.)
Relief shown by hachures.
Source
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Maps of North America. / Countries / United States (except New York) / States / Virginia
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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