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Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches

Title: Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches / triangulation by C.O. Boutelle and Capt. T.J. Cram, U.S.A. assis. ; topography by H.L. Whiting [and others] ; hydrography by the parties under the command of C.H. Davis [and others]. Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod / from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache and Benj. Peirce, superintendents of the Survey of the Coast of the United States.
Author: United States Coast Survey, creator, issuing body.
Publication: [Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, [1885]

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Request Appointment 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. 16-769	Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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Description

1 map; 75 x 97 cm, on sheet 84 x 102 cm

Alternative Title

Boston Bay and approaches
Coast charts no. 9 & 10, Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod
Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod
Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US091.1.06

Subjects

Genre/Form

Nautical charts.
Bathymetric maps.
Maps.

Note

Relief shown by hachures and landforms drawings. Depths shown by soundings, isolines, and shading.
Oriented with north toward upper right.
"Edition statement from "Massachusetts Bay" title area.
Includes light houses, variations of the magnetic needle, life saving stations, weather signal stations, bottom types, buoys, light vessels, tides, and 3 views: Cape Ann from the eastward, Rockport Light ... -- Boston entrance, Boston Light ... -- Minot's Ledge Light ...
"Issued December 1877 C.P. Patterson Superintendent. Verified J.E. Hilgard Assistant in charge of Office."
"The Hydrography of Boston Bay and Harbor is from a resurvey made under the direction of the U.S. Harbor Commission, consisting of Genl. J.G. Totten ... A.D. Bache ... and C.H. Davis by A. Boschke in 1862 '63 and '64."
"Engd. by J. Enthoffer, J. Knight, J.C. Kondrup and H.S. Barnard. Views by G. McCoy."
"Redd. Drng. by E. Hergesheimer, M.J. McClery, A. Lindenkohl and A. Balbach."
"No. 109."
"Electrotype Copy No. 3 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S."
"Pulished in 1872."

Call Number

Map Div. 16-769

OCLC

957559432

Author

United States Coast Survey, creator, issuing body.

Title

Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches / triangulation by C.O. Boutelle and Capt. T.J. Cram, U.S.A. assis. ; topography by H.L. Whiting [and others] ; hydrography by the parties under the command of C.H. Davis [and others]. Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod / from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache and Benj. Peirce, superintendents of the Survey of the Coast of the United States.

Imprint

[Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, [1885]

Edition

Aids to navigation corrected to 1885.

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:80,000 (W 71°08ʹ--W 70°10ʹ/N 42°47ʹ--N 42°02ʹ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

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Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added Author

Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis)

Cram, Thomas Jefferson, 1807?-1883.

Whiting, H. L. (Henry Laurens)

Davis, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1845-1921.

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.

Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880.

Enthoffer, J. (Joseph), 1818-1901.

Totten, Joseph Gilbert, 1788-1864.

Boschke, A.

United States. Harbor Commission.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 16-769

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