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Additional authors

1. Poole, C. H. (Cartographer)
2. McClelland, D.
3. United States. Post Office Department, publisher.

Description

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

Alternative title

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

Subject

1. Delaware > Maps
2. Maryland > Maps
3. Postal service > Middle Atlantic States > Maps
4. Post roads > Middle Atlantic States > Maps
5. Maps
6. New Jersey > Maps
7. Pennsylvania > Maps

Genre/Form

1. Maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 17-5125

Note

1. Shows counties, towns, cities, railroads, and rivers.
2. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
3. Inset: Postal service of the eastern shore of Virginia and Maryland and connections with Norfolk and with the lower peninsulas of Virginia.
4. 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)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Author

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

Title

1. 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

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

Edition

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

Cartographic data

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

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 7, page 638, column a, no. 6

Source

1. US198.2.02

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added author

1. Poole, C. H. (Cartographer), draftsman.
2. McClelland, D., engraver.
3. United States. Post Office Department, publisher.

Research call number

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