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Title
Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts
Names
United States Coast Survey (Publisher)
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 (Creator)
Whiting, Henry L. (Creator)
Eakin, C. M. (Creator)
Boschke, A. (Draftsman)
Mechlin, J. R. P. (Draftsman)
Dankworth, Frederick, approximately 1804- (Engraver)
Yaeger, E. (Engraver)
Throop, John Peter Van Ness, 1794-approximately 1861 (Engraver)
Young, J. (Engraver)
Ackerman's (Firm) (Lithographer)
Collection

Maps of North America

Countries

United States (except New York)

States

Massachusetts

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1854
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: U. S. Coast Survey Office
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 16-789
Topics
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Muskeget Channel
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Sound (Mass.)
Marthas Vineyard (Mass.)s Vineyard (Mass.)
Muskeget Island (Mass.)
Muskeget Channel (Mass.)
Genres
Maps
Nautical charts
Notes
Statement of responsibility: From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States.
Content: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Content: Also cover part of Nantucket Sound.
Content: Text includes: sailing directions, tide table; note on soundings; list of abbreviations.
Content: Includes "View of Holmes' Hole Harbor and View of north entrance to Muskeget Channel" at bottom edge, and "Telescopic view of Cape Poge Lt."
Content: "A no. 13."
Statement of responsibility: "Triangulation by C.M. Eakin, assistant U.S.C.S.; topography by H.L. Whiting, assistant; hydrography by the parties under the command of Lieuts. G.S. Blake, C.H. Davis and C.H. McBlair, U.S. Navy assistants U.S.C.S."
Statement of responsibility: "Redd. drng. by A. Boschke and J.R.P. Mechlin" -- lower left.
Statement of responsibility: "Engd. by F. Dankworth, E. Yaeger, J.V.N. Throop & J. Young."-- lower right.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map ; 70 x 51 cm on sheet 74 x 56 cm
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 427897246
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21092167
Other local Identifier: US093.3.06
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2f649610-738f-0134-dbc2-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1854: Issued
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1854). Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

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Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts