Research Catalog

Title

A.R. Roessler's latest map of the state of Texas [cartographic material] : exhibiting mineral and agricultural districts, post offices & mailroutes [sic], railroads projected and finished, timber, prairie, swamp lands, etc. etc. etc. / compiled and drawn by M.V Mittendorfer.

Author

Roessler, A. R.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Ed. W. Welke, 1874.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ferd. Mayer
• Mittendorfer, M. V.
• Ed. W. Welke

Description

2 maps on 1 sheet : hand colored; 93 x 105 cm and 28 x 29 cm, sheet 100 x 112 cm

Alternative Title

• State of Texas
• Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US231.1

Subjects

• Soils
• Texas
• Maps
• 1800 - 1899
• Texas > 19th century > Maps
• Soils > Texas > 19th century > Maps
• United States > Southwestern States
• United States territories and possessions
• Maps > Texas > 19th century
• United States > Territories and possessions > 19th century > Maps
• Southwestern States > 19th century > Maps

Genre/Form

• Maps.
• Maps – Texas – 19th century.

Note

• Relief shown by hachures and depictions.
• Shows counties and county seats, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, Indian Territory, and surrounding states.
• "Authorities: official maps of the U.S. & Texas State General Land Offices, surveys & reconnoissances of the U.S. Coast Survey, the various rail road surveys, U.S. Mexican Boundary Commission surveys, U.S. Engineer Dept. and other authentic materials."
• "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1874 by A.R. Roessler in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."
• Includes ancillary map entitled, "Map Showing Agricultural Districts and Varieties of Soils in the State of Texas," with "Tables of Soils" and surveyor's station readings, printed by Ferd. Mayer, New York.
• Includes, "Enumeration of principle minerals, rocks, soils and timber varieties, known to exist in the state of Texas arranged according to counties."
• Includes text on "Geology" and "Area of Texas."

Indexed In (note)

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

Call Number

Map Div. 17-427

OCLC

46681995

Author

Roessler, A. R., creator.

Title

A.R. Roessler's latest map of the state of Texas [cartographic material] : exhibiting mineral and agricultural districts, post offices & mailroutes [sic], railroads projected and finished, timber, prairie, swamp lands, etc. etc. etc. / compiled and drawn by M.V Mittendorfer.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Ed. W. Welke, 1874.

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:1,267,200 (W 107°45ʹ--W 92°30ʹ/N 37°00ʹ--N 25°45ʹ).

Scale approximately 1:4,435,200 (W 107°15ʹ--W 93°15ʹ/N 36°15ʹ--N 25°30ʹ).

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.9, page 533, column 1, row 5

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Ferd. Mayer, printer.

Mittendorfer, M. V., draughtsman.

Ed. W. Welke, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 17-427