Statement Of Responsibility: by J. Calvin Smith.
Content: Relief shown by hachures.
Content: Includes distances for overland routes from St. Louis and Fort Smith, and distances for sea routes from New York.
Content: Inset map: Map of the gold region, California. Scale [ca. 1:4,700,000] (W 124°--W 117°/N 42°--N 33°).
Content: Prime meridians: Washington, D.C., and Greenwich.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 55 x 48 cm
NYPL Map Div. copy has accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 53834

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 33964176
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20731631
Other local Identifier: NA016
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ab7cbd50-1140-0133-dbb1-58d385a7b928

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1851

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of North America" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1851. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7cbd50-1140-0133-dbb1-58d385a7b928

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1851). Map of North America Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7cbd50-1140-0133-dbb1-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of North America" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 19, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7cbd50-1140-0133-dbb1-58d385a7b928

Wikipedia citation

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