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The travellers pocket map of Virginia : with its canals, rail-roads & distances from place to place along the stage roads

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Title
The travellers pocket map of Virginia : with its canals, rail-roads & distances from place to place along the stage roads
Names
Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858 (Publisher)
Brose, W. (Engraver)
Collection

Maps of North America

Countries

United States (except New York)

States

Virginia

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1830
Place: Philadelphia :
Publisher: Published by H.S. Tanner, No. 144 Chestnut St.,
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 01-5375 [In box]
Topics
Virginia -- Maps
Canals -- Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) -- Altitudes -- Charts, diagrams, etc
Roads -- Virginia
Steam-navigation -- Virginia
Virginia
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1830 by H.S. Tanner in the Clerks Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Content: Includes "Profile of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal" and tables of steamboat routes and distances between Richmond and other cities, and between Wheeling and other cities.
Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Prime meridian: Washington D.C.
Content: Relief shown by hachures.
Statement of responsibility: by H.S. Tanner ; engraved by W. Brose, Philadelphia, 1830.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 26 x 33 cm. folded in leather cover 11 x 7 cm.
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 48187850
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15260685
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8b38bf30-c52b-012f-30bb-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1786: Creator Born
  • 1830: Issued
  • 1858: Creator Died
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The travellers pocket map of Virginia " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee95-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The travellers pocket map of Virginia " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee95-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1830). The travellers pocket map of Virginia Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee95-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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The travellers pocket map of Virginia