Research Catalog

Title

Preliminary sketch of Galveston Bay, Texas / triangulation by R.H. Fauntleroy & R.D. Cutts assts.; topography by J.M. Wampler sub asst.; hydrography by...Lieuts. T.A. Craven & E.J. De Haven U.S.N. assts.

Author

United States Coast Survey, creator, publisher.

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Coast Survey, [1862]

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Details

Additional Authors

Gansevoort-Lansing Collection

Description

1 map; 50 x 42 cm, sheet 56 x 47 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US233.1

Subjects

• Maps
• Galveston (Tex.) > Maps
• Nautical charts > Texas > Galveston Bay > Maps
• Galveston Bay (Tex.) > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Depths shown by soundings and contours.
• At head of title: (I No.3) U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, superintend't.
• Includes sailing directions and notes on tides.
• Insets: Clopper's Bar [Scale 1:100,000] -- Red Fish Bar [Scale 1:100,000].
• "1855."
• Upper left margin: No. 41 ; upper right margin: Transfer from copperplate Nov. 1862.

Call Number

Map Div. 18-709

OCLC

1020796563

Author

United States Coast Survey, creator, publisher.

Title

Preliminary sketch of Galveston Bay, Texas / triangulation by R.H. Fauntleroy & R.D. Cutts assts.; topography by J.M. Wampler sub asst.; hydrography by...Lieuts. T.A. Craven & E.J. De Haven U.S.N. assts.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Coast Survey, [1862]

Edition

4th Edition

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:200,000 (W 95°03ʹ20ʺ--W 94°32ʹ12ʺ/N 29°49ʹ33ʺ--N 29°12ʹ16ʺ).

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

Gansevoort-Lansing Collection

Research Call Number

Map Div. 18-709 [Filed as Galveston Bay 1855]