Research Catalog

Title

Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads &c. / by David H. Burr, (Late topographer to the Post Office,) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Author

Burr, David H., 1803-1875.

Publication

[London? : s.n. ; 1839]

Supplementary Content

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Details

Description

1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 89 x 122 cm., sheets 97 x 66 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

• Canals > Virginia > Maps
• Virginia > Maps
• Maryland > Maps
• Delaware > Maps
• Railroads > Delaware > Maps
• Railroads > Maryland > Maps
• Railroads > Virginia > Maps
• Canals > Maryland > Maps
• Canals > Delaware > Maps

Note

• Relief relief shown by hachures.
• Shows township and county boundaries.
• "Entered according to the Act of Congress, July 10th 1839, by David H. Burr, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."
• Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.

Indexed In (note)

• Phillips. Maps of America
• LC Railroad maps

Additional Formats (note)

• Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Call Number

Map Div. 01-1949

LCCN

98688346

OCLC

43589165

Author

Burr, David H., 1803-1875.

Title

Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads &c. / by David H. Burr, (Late topographer to the Post Office,) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Imprint

[London? : s.n. ; 1839]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:633,600] (W 74̕00ʹ--W 83̕40ʹ/N 41̕00ʹ--N 35̕50ʹ).

Indexed In:

Phillips. Maps of America, p. 987

LC Railroad maps, 70

Additional Formats

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Image(s) via Library of Congress

Research Call Number

Map Div. 01-1949