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Ensign's Travellers' guide and map of the United States : containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c.
- Title
- Ensign's Travellers' guide and map of the United States : containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c. / engraved on steel by J. Wells, Brooklyn, L.I.
- Author
- Ensigns & Thayer.
- Publication
- New York : Published by Ensigns & Thayer, 36 Ann Street, 1848.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Oversize | Map Div. 01-5132 [Oversize - Filed with United States Oversize; map and accompanying sheet joined as 1] | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 map : hand col.; 40 x 76 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Alternative Title
- Travellers' guide and map of the United States
- Subjects
- Note
- Relief shown by hachures.
- "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1840 by Phelps & Ensign, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District, of the State of New York."
- Accompanied by sheet (25 x 105 cm.) with ill. of scenes from American history and ports.
- Prime meridian: Washington.
- Distances from point to point shown on roads.
- Includes decorative borders, diagrams of chief rivers and mountains, ancilliary world map and text of Declaration of Independence with ill.
- Insets: Vicinity of Niagara Falls -- North part of Maine -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Boston -- South part of Florida -- Vicinity of Baltimore -- Vicinity of New Orleans -- Vicinity of Mobile -- Vicinity of Cincinnati -- Vicinity of St. Louis -- Vicinity of Charleston -- Vicinity of Pittsburg -- Vicinity of Chicago -- Vicinity of Detroit -- Vicinity of Washington.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 01-5132
- OCLC
- 47233447
- Author
- Ensigns & Thayer.
- Title
- Ensign's Travellers' guide and map of the United States : containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c. / engraved on steel by J. Wells, Brooklyn, L.I.
- Imprint
- New York : Published by Ensigns & Thayer, 36 Ann Street, 1848.
- Cartographic Data
- Scale [ca. 1:4,740,000].
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wells, J.Phelps & Ensign.
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 01-5132 [Oversize - Filed with United States Oversize; map and accompanying sheet joined as 1 sheet]