Research Catalog

Title

[Map of the Butterfield Overland Trail mail route through the southwestern United States] / engrd. by Schönberg & Co., 75 Nassau St., N.Y.

Publication

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1857 and 1861?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Schönberg & Co., engraver.
• NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 1 General Daniel Butterfield Collection. 30a
• NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 2 General Daniel Butterfield Collection. 30b

Description

1 map; 20 x 53 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Subjects

• Maps
• Post roads > United States > Maps
• Butterfield Overland Trail > Maps
• Southwestern States > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Relief shown by hachures.
• Shows the mail route from Saint Louis and Memphis in the east, via a southern route through Fort Smith, Fort Belknap, El Paso, Tucson, Yuma, and Los Angeles, to San Francisco in the west.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Congress established subsidy for the route in 1857; route discontinued with outbreak of Civil War in 1861.--American National Biography Online article on John Butterfield.
• Appears in an 1858-1859 handbook "printed by Hellier and Company Publishers" for "conducters, agents, drivers, and station managers."--Wikimedia Commons.
• Mail route trail named for John Butterfield, who established the Overland Mail Company and was the father of General Daniel Butterfield.--American National Biography Online.

Source (note)

• Mrs. Daniel Butterfield;

Call Number

Map Div. 15-430

OCLC

909413221

Title

[Map of the Butterfield Overland Trail mail route through the southwestern United States] / engrd. by Schönberg & Co., 75 Nassau St., N.Y.

Publisher

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1857 and 1861?]

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 (W 123°--W 88°/N 39ʺ--N 29°).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Local Note

NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 1: Accession no. stamped on verso in blue ink: 36645.

NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 2: Accession no. stamped on verso in blue ink: 36644.

Source

Gift; Mrs. Daniel Butterfield; 1903-1904

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

National Postal Museum copy image via Wikimedia

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York

Added Author

Schönberg & Co., engraver.

NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 1 General Daniel Butterfield Collection. 30a

NYPL Map Div. 15-430 copy 2 General Daniel Butterfield Collection. 30b

Research Call Number

Map Div. 15-430