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Post route map of the state of Minnesota : with adjacent parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Wisconsin and of the British possessions : showing post offices with the intermediate distances between them and mail routes in operation on 1st October 1883

Title
Post route map of the state of Minnesota : with adjacent parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Wisconsin and of the British possessions : showing post offices with the intermediate distances between them and mail routes in operation on 1st October 1883 / engraved by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.
Author
United States. Post Office Department, creator, publisher.
Publication
[Washington, D.C.?] : [Post Office Department, United States of America], 1883.

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CartographicSupervised use Map Div. 16-5460Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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Additional Authors
  • Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895.
  • Roeser, C. (Charles)
  • McClelland, D.
Description
1 map : color; 143 x 104 cm, on sheet 147 x 106 cm
Alternative Title
Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US109.3.04
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Note
  • Also shows railroads, postal routes, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features.
  • Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
  • Includes table of "Distances computed by the shortest mail routes and from the terminal post offices"
  • At head of title: [logo] Post Office Department.
  • "Published by order of Postmaster General Walter Q. Gresham under the direction of C. Roeser, Jr., Topographer, P.O. Dept."
  • "The first edition was issued in 1876."
  • "The service on this diagram brought up to date of Dec. 1, 1883."
Indexed In (note)
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
Call Number
Map Div. 16-5460
OCLC
70900673
Author
United States. Post Office Department, creator, publisher.
Title
Post route map of the state of Minnesota : with adjacent parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Wisconsin and of the British possessions : showing post offices with the intermediate distances between them and mail routes in operation on 1st October 1883 / engraved by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.
Publisher
[Washington, D.C.?] : [Post Office Department, United States of America], 1883.
Cartographic Data
Scale 1:633,600. Ten miles to the inch (W 97°14ʹ--W 89°29ʹ/N 49°23ʹ--N 42°30ʹ).
Type of Content
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
sheet
Indexed In:
New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 6, page 529, column 1, no. 2
Local Note
NYPL Map Div. copy has accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 61754.
Source
US109.3.04
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Place of Publication
United States District of Columbia Washington.
Added Author
Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895.
Roeser, C. (Charles)
McClelland, D., engraver.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 16-5460
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