Road from Philadelphia to Washington.
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Title
Road from Philadelphia to Washington.
Collection
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases
Atlases
The traveller's directory, or A pocket companion: shewing the course of the main road from Philadelphia to New York, and from Philadelphia to Washington. With descriptions of the places through which it passes ...
Names
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 (Publisher)
Moore, S. S. (Author)
Jones, T. W. (Associated name)
Draper, J. (John) (Engraver)
Shallus, Francis (Engraver)
Harrison, William, approximately 1750-1803 (Engraver)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1802
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: M. Carey
Library Location
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 97-6238 (Segments 21-22) [In LHS 4007A]
Subjects
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Philadelphia -- Guidebooks, 1802
Roads -- Middle Atlantic States
United States -- Guidebooks
United States
Middle Atlantic States Guidebooks
Pennsylvania
Roads -- Delaware
Roads -- Maryland -- Baltimore Region
Roads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Roads -- Washington Region
Genres
Notes
Content: Copy in Map Div. 97-6238: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 4007A.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Ownership: 28376A Copy 2.
Ownership: 28750 Copy 1.
Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
Content: Covers the city of Baltimore.
Content: Engravings by Francis Shallus, William Harrison junr. and John Draper.
Content: Orientation varies from segment to segment.
Content: Relief shown by hachures.
Content: Strip map of roads in 22 segments.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map on 12 sheets ; sheets 21 x 13 cm.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 1571787
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14248554
RLIN/OCLC: 49402611
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15369877
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d75932a0-c5d4-012f-596e-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1802
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MLA format
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Road from Philadelphia to Washington." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1802. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d75932a0-c5d4-012f-596e-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1802). Road from Philadelphia to Washington. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d75932a0-c5d4-012f-596e-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Road from Philadelphia to Washington." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d75932a0-c5d4-012f-596e-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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