Ensign's Travellers' guide and map of the United States : containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c.

Item data

Title

Ensign's Travellers' guide and map of the United States : containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c.

Collection

Maps of North America
Countries
United States (except New York)
Whole

Names

Wells, J. (Engraver)
Phelps & Ensign (Publisher)
Phelps & Squire (Publisher)
T. & E. H. Ensign (Publisher)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1845
Place: New York
Publisher: Published by T. & E.H. Ensign,

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 00-479

Subjects

Transportation -- United States
United States -- Distances, etc
United States -- Distances, etc -- Maps
United States -- Maps, Tourist

Genres

Maps

Notes

Content: Includes insets: Vicinity of Niagara Falls -- North part of Maine -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Boston -- South part of Florida -- Vicinity of Baltimore -- Vicinity of New Orleans -- Vicinity of Mobile -- Vicinity of Cincinnati -- Vicinity of St. Louis -- Vicinity of Charleston -- Vicinity of Pittsburg -- Vicinity of Chicago -- Vicinity of Detroit -- Vicinity of Washington.
Content: Text title: Phelps & Ensign's traveller's guide through the United States : containing stage, steamboat, canal and rail-road routes, with the distances from place to place : illustrated by a new and accurate map of the United States. New York : Phelps & Ensign, No. 7 Bowery.
Content: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1837 by Phelps & Squire, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Southern District, of the state of New York."
Content: Distances from point to point shown on roads.
Content: Map within decorative borders.
Funding: 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: engraved on steel by J. Wells, Brooklyn, L.I.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 40 x 54 cm folded in leather cover 14 x 9 cm. + text (53 p. ; 14 cm)

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 45699951
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14952382
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): eb0b4c50-c52a-012f-82ba-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1845

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