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Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States : a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c.

Title
  1. Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States : a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c. / by J.H. Young ; engraved on steel by J.H. Young & D. Haines.
Published by
  1. Philadelphia : Published by S. Augustus Mitchell : sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., No. 253 Market Street, 1841.
Author
  1. Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)

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Additional authors
  1. Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.
  2. Haines, D.
Description
  1. 1 map : hand col.; 42 x 52 cm., folded in leather cover 14 x 9 cm. +
Donor/Sponsor
  1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Subject
  1. United States > Maps, Tourist
  2. Transportation > United States > Maps
  3. United States > Distances, etc
Call number
  1. Map Div. 00-478
Note
  1. Covers the U.S. as far west as the western border of Missouri.
  2. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
  3. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Clerks Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District, of Pennsylvania."
  4. Text title: Mitchell's traveller's guide through the United States, containing the principal cities, towns &c. alphabetically arranged : together with the stage, steam-boat, canal, and railroad routes, with the distances, in miles, from place to place : illustrated by an accurate map of the United States.
  5. Includes insets : Vicinity of Boston -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington -- Vicinity of Charleston -- Vicinity of Cincinnati -- Vicinity of Albany -- Vicinity of the falls of Niagara.
Author
  1. Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Title
  1. Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States : a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c. / by J.H. Young ; engraved on steel by J.H. Young & D. Haines.
Imprint
  1. Philadelphia : Published by S. Augustus Mitchell : sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., No. 253 Market Street, 1841.
Cartographic data
  1. Scale [ca. 1:4,800,000].
Local note
  1. Gordon Lester Ford Collection.
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  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.
  2. Haines, D.
Research call number
  1. Map Div. 00-478
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