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Post route map of the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland and of the District of Columbia, with adjacent parts of New York, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia

Title: Post route map of the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland and of the District of Columbia, with adjacent parts of New York, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia / designed and constructed under the orders of postmaster general Alex W. Randall and second asst. postmaster general Geo. Wm. McLellan, by W.L. Nicholson, topographer of P.O. Dept., 1869 ; drawn by C.H. Poole ; engraved by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.
Author: Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895
Publication: [Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1874]

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Description

1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored; 135 x 153 cm, sheets 77 x 84 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US198.2.02

Subjects

Delaware > Maps
Maryland > Maps
Postal service > Middle Atlantic States > Maps
Post roads > Middle Atlantic States > Maps
Maps
New Jersey > Maps
Pennsylvania > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

Shows counties, towns, cities, railroads, and rivers.
Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
Inset: Postal service of the eastern shore of Virginia and Maryland and connections with Norfolk and with the lower peninsulas of Virginia.
Includes notes and tables: Explanation of mail service -- General statistics -- Distances computed by the shortest mail routes and from the terminal post offices.

Indexed In (note)

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Call Number

Map Div. 17-5125

OCLC

966681662

Author

Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895, creator.

Title

Post route map of the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland and of the District of Columbia, with adjacent parts of New York, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia / designed and constructed under the orders of postmaster general Alex W. Randall and second asst. postmaster general Geo. Wm. McLellan, by W.L. Nicholson, topographer of P.O. Dept., 1869 ; drawn by C.H. Poole ; engraved by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1874]

Edition

The service on this diagram brought up to date of December 1, 1874.

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:380,160. Six miles to the inch (W 80°38ʹ--W 73°45ʹ/N 42°29ʹ--N 37°54ʹ).

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. 7, page 638, column a, no. 6

Source

US198.2.02

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Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added Author

Poole, C. H. (Cartographer), draftsman.

McClelland, D., engraver.

United States. Post Office Department, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 17-5125 [Filed with Pennsylvania, 1869, as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary catalog of the Map Division]

Map Div. 17-5125

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