Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Covers Luzerne, Union, Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill, and Northampton counties.
Content: Shows county and town lines, railroads and proposed railroads. Also shows property owners' names and lot numbers.
Content: Oriented with north to the upper right.
Content: "Entered by J.F. & C.A. Wa[tson], 62 Walnut Street, Philadelphia."
Content: Includes note.
Statement Of Responsibility: by Samuel B. Fisher, Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Physical Description

Lithographs
Extent: 1 map ; 114 x 217 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 46794723
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15025192
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 75dcccf0-c52b-012f-d49f-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1836

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the first and second anthracite coal fields" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1836. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/75dcccf0-c52b-012f-d49f-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1836). Map of the first and second anthracite coal fields Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/75dcccf0-c52b-012f-d49f-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the first and second anthracite coal fields" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/75dcccf0-c52b-012f-d49f-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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