Research Catalog

Title

A diagram of the State of Alabama. / Surveyor's Office, Florence Alabama 25th. Jan. 1840. Jas. H. Weakley, Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Alabama ; W.J. Stone, sc.

Author

Weakley, James H.

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : [Government Printing Office], [1841]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Stone, William James, 1798-1865

Found In

United States. Congress (26th, 2nd session : 1840-1841) Senate. Washington, Government Printing Office, ©1840

Description

1 map : hand colored; 58 x 29 cm, on sheet 60 x 32 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US031.1.05

Subjects

• Indians of North America
• Alabama
• Indians of North America > Alabama > Maps
• Alabama > Maps
• Alabama > Surveys > Maps
• Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Library's copy has hand coloring highlighting some of the boundary lines.
• "Exhibiting the situation of the Public Surveys shewing what records of the same are on file in the General Land Office and the Surveyor General's Office, the Townships, the field notes of which are yet to be transcribed for the General Land Office and recorded in this Office, also what Townships, the original field notes of which are not on file in either office, having been destroyed by fire in December 1827, and which have to be retraced for the purpose of obtaining the Original Land Marks to be preserved on record in the General Land Office and this Office."
• "S. 26 Cong. 2 Sess." at upper right corner.
• Shows Choctaw cession of 1830, Creek cession of 1832, Chickasaw cession of 1833 and Cherokee cession.

Indexed In (note)

• Mason, Sara Elizabeth. A list of nineteenth century maps of the State of Alabama
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Call Number

Map Div. 17-571

OCLC

232410898

Author

Weakley, James H., creator.

Title

A diagram of the State of Alabama. / Surveyor's Office, Florence Alabama 25th. Jan. 1840. Jas. H. Weakley, Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Alabama ; W.J. Stone, sc.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : [Government Printing Office], [1841]

Cartographic Data

Scale not given (W 88°28ʹ--W 84°53ʹ/N 35°00ʹ--N 30°08ʹ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

Mason, Sara Elizabeth. A list of nineteenth century maps of the State of Alabama no. 41

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 1, page 120, column 2, no. 4

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

OCLC copy image

Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added Author

Stone, William James, 1798-1865, engraver.

Found In:

United States. Congress (26th, 2nd session : 1840-1841) Senate. Washington, Government Printing Office, ©1840

Research Call Number

Map Div. 17-571