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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 October, 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 October, 1888.
- Author
- United States. Post Office Department, issuing body.
- Publication
- [Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1888]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Supervised use | Map Div. 17-5027 | Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 map on 2 sheets : color; 140 x 160 cm, sheets 76 x 163 cm and 73 x 163 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). US185.3.02
- Subjects
- Railroads > Southern States > Maps
- Railroads > South Carolina > Maps
- Postal service > North Carolina > Maps
- Railroads > North Carolina > Maps
- Southern States > Maps
- Postal service > South Carolina > Maps
- South Carolina > Administrative and political divisions > Maps
- Maps
- North Carolina > Administrative and political divisions > Maps
- Postal service > Southern States > Maps
- South Carolina > Maps
- North Carolina > Maps
- 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."
- "Engraved by D. McClelland, Wash'n. D.C." -- lower right margin.
- Indexed In (note)
- New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
- Call Number
- Map Div. 17-5027
- OCLC
- 986784352
- 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 October, 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. 5
- Local Note
- NYPL Map Div. copy originally folded to 22 x 14 cm, dissected and mounted on cloth.NYPL Map Div. copy is divided into 8 sheets 76 x 40 cm, or smaller; has accession no. stamped in lower center corner: 22265 and lower left corner: 22264. Northern half and southern half of NYPL Map Div. copy seem mismatched. publication of the northern half may differ. Library copy has labels pasted on verso of 2 sheets: Post route map, Accomac, Va. to New Berne N.C. The property of U.H. Painter -- Post route map 188[?], New Burne N.C. to Savannah, Ga.
- Source
- US185.3.02
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- United States District of Columbia Washington.
- Added Author
- Enright, David.Dickinson, Donald McDonald, 1846-1917.McClelland, D., engraver.
- Other Title
- North Carolina and South Carolina with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 17-5027 [8 sheets]