Content: Prime meridian: Washington.
Content: Shows counties, railroads, canals, major cities, towns, battlegrounds, and mining activity for Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and parts of Iowa, Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin Territory.
Content: Includes explanation of population and length of waterbodies.
Content: Names of locations with same latitude in left and right margins.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US005.1.09
Content: Scale approximately 1:3,000,000 (W 95°--W 80°/N 42°--N 36°).

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 25 x 42 cm, sheet 30 x 45 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 793019918
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20643871
Other local Identifier: US005.1.09
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a9482c30-54ac-0133-84f0-00505686d14e

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1829

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1829. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a9482c30-54ac-0133-84f0-00505686d14e

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1829). Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a9482c30-54ac-0133-84f0-00505686d14e

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a9482c30-54ac-0133-84f0-00505686d14e

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