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Post route map of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina : with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December, 1888.

Title
Post route map of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina : with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December, 1888.
Author
United States. Post Office Department, issuing body.
Publication
[Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1888]

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CartographicSupervised use Map Div. 17-5026Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

Details

Additional Authors
  • Enright, David.
  • Dickinson, Donald McDonald, 1846-1917.
Description
1 map : color; 131 x 155 cm
Alternative Title
  • North Carolina and South Carolina with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia
  • Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US185.3.01
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Note
  • Shows counties, cities and towns, mail routes and frequencies, railroads and natural features.
  • Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
  • Inset map: Western part of North Carolina.
  • "Published by order of Postmaster General Don. M. Dickinson under the direction of David Enright, Topographer P.O. Dept."
  • "The first edition was issued in 1883."
Indexed In (note)
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
Call Number
Map Div. 17-5026
OCLC
986785301
Author
United States. Post Office Department, issuing body.
Title
Post route map of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina : with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December, 1888.
Publisher
[Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1888]
Cartographic Data
Scale 1:506,880. Eight miles to the inch (W 84°10ʹ--W 74°55ʹ/N 41°05ʹ--N 31°50ʹ).
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 273, column 3, no. 6
Local Note
NYPL Map Div. copy originally folded to 22 x 14 cm, dissected and mounted on cloth.
NYPL Map Div. copy imperfect: northern border and margin as well as east half of southern border and margin of map lacking; has accession no. stamped in lower margin: 22260-22261.
NYPL Map Div. copy is divided into 8 sheets 75 x 41 cm or smaller. Label pasted on verso of 2 sheets: Post route map, 12th mo. 1888, New Church, Va. to Charleston, S.C. The property of U.H. Painter.
Source
US185.3.01
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Place of Publication
United States District of Columbia Washington.
Added Author
Enright, David.
Dickinson, Donald McDonald, 1846-1917.
Other Title
North Carolina and South Carolina with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia
Research Call Number
Map Div. 17-5026 [8 sheets]
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