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Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls : from actual surveys

Title
Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls : from actual surveys / by Samuel Geil.
Author
Geil, Samuel
Publication
No. 15 Minor St., Phila[delphi]a. : S. Geil & J.L. Delp, 1853.

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CartographicSupervised use Map Div. 16-6125Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

Details

Additional Authors
Delp, J. L.
Description
1 map : hand colored; 41 x 40 cm, on sheet 60 x 73 cm
Alternative Title
Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US177.3.06
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Cadastral maps.
  • Maps.
Note
  • Shows roads, railroads, landowners, tract numbers, marshes, vegetation, towns, and settlements.
  • Relief shown pictorially and by hachures.
  • Includes historic notes and 13 vignettes:View from Point View, American side -- Horse Show Fall -- Rail road suspension bridge at Belle Vue -- Observatories Lundys Lane -- View from the Ferry, American side -- [untitled] -- Oliver T. Mackleins Chippewa Foundry, Stove Work, etc. -- Brock's monument -- View from Hogs Back -- The Brock Monument -- Lewiston suspension bridge -- View of the whirlpool from the Canada side -- View from Victoria Point, Canada side.
  • Map within decorative border.
  • "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853 by Samuel Geil, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
  • "Author of maps of Niagara, Orleans, and Cayuga Counties, N.Y. &c."
Indexed In (note)
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
Call Number
Map Div. 16-6125
OCLC
824457062
Author
Geil, Samuel, creator, publisher, surveyor.
Title
Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls : from actual surveys / by Samuel Geil.
Publisher
No. 15 Minor St., Phila[delphi]a. : S. Geil & J.L. Delp, 1853.
Cartographic Data
Scale not given (W 79°15ʹ--W 78°53ʹ/N 43°11ʹ--N 42°58ʹ).
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. 7, page 230, column 2, row 7
Source
US177.3.06
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Place of Publication
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Added Author
Delp, J. L., publisher.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 16-6125 [Filed as New York State Locals N]
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