Content: Insets: Vicinity of Albany -- Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara -- Vicinity of Boston -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington -- Vicinity of Charleston -- Vicinity of New Orleans -- Map of North America, including all the recent geographical discoveries.
Content: Includes decorative cartouche, "Distances on the Erie and Champlain canals," "Length of the principal canals in the United States," "Comparative heights of the principal mountains and hills, of the United States," "Comparative lengths of the principal rivers of the United States," statistical tables of the United States and North America.
Content: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Clerks Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, October 10th 1834 by S. Augustus Mitchell."
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Prime meridian: Washington.
Content: Relief shown by hachures.
Statement Of Responsibility: by J.H. Young ; engraved by J.H. Young, D. Haines & F. Dankworth.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 107 x 84 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 47808884
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15112754
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dbc4ec30-c52a-012f-6b53-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1834

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the United States" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1834. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dbc4ec30-c52a-012f-6b53-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1834). Map of the United States Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dbc4ec30-c52a-012f-6b53-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the United States" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dbc4ec30-c52a-012f-6b53-3c075448cc4b

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