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Post route map of the States of South Carolina and Georgia : with adjacent parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of February 1885.

Title
  1. Post route map of the States of South Carolina and Georgia : with adjacent parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of February 1885.
Published by
  1. [Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1885]
Author
  1. United States. Post Office Department, creator, issuing body

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Additional authors
  1. Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895
  2. Hatton, Frank, 1861-1883
Description
  1. 1 map : color, mounted on cloth; 104 x 147 cm
Alternative title
  1. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US223.1.08
Subject
  1. Postal service -- South Carolina -- Maps
  2. Counties -- South Carolina -- Maps
  3. Railroads -- South Carolina -- Maps
  4. Postal service -- Georgia -- Maps
  5. Counties -- Georgia -- Maps
  6. Railroads -- Georgia -- Maps
  7. South Carolina -- Maps
  8. Georgia -- Maps
Genre/Form
  1. Maps.
Call number
  1. Map Div. 17-5294
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. Also shows railroads and counties.
  2. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.
  3. "Published by order of Postmaster General Frank Hatton under the direction of W.L. Nicholson, Topographer, P.O. Dept."
  4. "The first edition was issued in 1879."
  5. "The service on this diagram brought up to date of [blank]."
Indexed in (note)
  1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
Local note
  1. NYPL Map Div. copy originally folded to 22 x 14 cm, dissected and mounted on cloth; has accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 22262. Label pasted on verso: "Post Office map, South Carolina, Georgia. The property of U.H. Painter."
Author
  1. United States. Post Office Department, creator, issuing body.
Title
  1. Post route map of the States of South Carolina and Georgia : with adjacent parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida : showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of February 1885.
Publisher
  1. [Washington, D.C.] : Post Office Department, [1885]
Cartographic data
  1. Scale 1:633,600. Ten miles to the inch (W 88°--W 78°/N 35°--N 29°).
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. 9 page 245 column 3, no. 1
Source
  1. US223.1.05
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Place of publication
  1. United States District of Columbia Washington.
Added author
  1. Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895.
  2. Hatton, Frank, 1861-1883.
Research call number
  1. Map Div. 17-5294
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