Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 map; 56 x 55 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 1.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Washington (D.C.) -- Maps, Topographic -- Early works to 1800
2. Arlington County (Va.) -- Maps, Topographic -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 00-412

Note

1. Relief shown by hachures.
2. Printed along city boundary: Out lines of the city of Washington with the grand avenues and principal streets leading through the public appropriations.
3. Oriented with north toward the upper left.
4. "First topographical survey of the District"--Phillips.

Indexed in (note)

1. Phillips. Maps of America
2. Phillips, P.L. Maps and views of Washington and District of Columbia

Author

1. Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.

Title

1. Territory of Columbia / drawn by And'w Ellicott.

Imprint

1. [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1794]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:31,680].

Indexed in:

1. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 265
2. Phillips, P.L. Maps and views of Washington and District of Columbia, p. 21

Local note

1. Map Div. 00-412 has typescript of extract from: List of Maps and Views of Washington and District of Columbia in the Library of Congress, by P. Lee Phillips pasted on verso of map.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

LCCN

1. 88694123

Research call number

1. Map Div. 00-412 [Filed with D.C. 1792]
2. Map Div. 97-6244 [LHS 1]