Research Catalog

Title

Asher & Adams' United States and territories [cartographic material] : [map] / drawn and engraved by W.H. Holmes.

Author

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933

Publication

• [New York, N.Y.] : Asher & Adams, [1874]
• ©1874

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Details

Additional Authors

Asher & Adams, publisher.

Description

1 map : hand colored; 40 x 56 cm, sheet 44 x 63 cm

Alternative Title

• Asher and Adams' United States and territories
• United States and territories
• Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US015.3.02

Subjects

• United States > Maps
• Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
• Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C.
• Shows railraod, cities, towns and topography.
• In upper left margin "3" and in upper right margin "4."
• Inset: Alaska [Scale approximately 1:22,000,000]
• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874 by Asher & Adams..."

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Call Number

Map Div. 15-5167

OCLC

44144773

Author

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933, cartographer.

Title

Asher & Adams' United States and territories [cartographic material] : [map] / drawn and engraved by W.H. Holmes.

Publisher

[New York, N.Y.] : Asher & Adams, [1874]

Copyright Date

©1874

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:8,100,000 (W 127°--W 67°/N 50°--N 24°).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division , v.10, page 186, column 3, row 5

Source

US015.3.02

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Asher & Adams, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 15-5167