Research Catalog

Title

Map of the states of California and Nevada / carefully compiled from the latest authentic sources by Chas. Drayton Gibbes, C.E.

Author

Gibbes, Charles Drayton

Publication

• No. 717 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. : Published by Warren Holt, 1881.
• 148 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. : S. Linton, (Formerly of the U.S. Coast Survey), Draughtsman & Lithographer, 1881.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holt, Warren
• Linton, S. B. (S. Benton)

Description

1 map : hand colored; 92 x 76 cm, on sheet 104 x 84 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US037.2.03

Subjects

• California
• California > Administrative and political divisions > Maps
• Railroads > Nevada > Maps
• Maps
• Nevada > Administrative and political divisions > Maps
• California > Maps
• Nevada > Maps
• Railroads > California > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Shows drainage, counties, U.S. land districts, townships, railroads (existing and proposed), railroad right-of-ways, military posts, etc.
• Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
• Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C.
• Includes list of judicial districts, index of land districts, and profile or cross section of "Elevation above the sea of some of the principal mountains in California and Nevada ..." by C.D. Gibbes, C.E.
• "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1881 by Warren Holt ..."

Indexed In (note)

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

Call Number

Map Div. 15-5470

OCLC

82460676

Author

Gibbes, Charles Drayton, creator.

Title

Map of the states of California and Nevada / carefully compiled from the latest authentic sources by Chas. Drayton Gibbes, C.E.

Publisher

No. 717 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. : Published by Warren Holt, 1881.

Manufacturer

148 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. : S. Linton, (Formerly of the U.S. Coast Survey), Draughtsman & Lithographer, 1881.

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:1,140,480. 18 miles to one inch (W 124°22ʹ--W 113°35ʹ/N 42°10ʹ--32°25ʹ).

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. 2, page 256, column 1, no. 6

Source

US037.2.03

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Holt, Warren, publisher.

Linton, S. B. (S. Benton), draftsman, lithographer.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 15-5470