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1820
UNITED STATES, A. Fullarton & Co. London &
Edinburgh. The United States extends to the Rocky
Mountains on this map with an inset titled "Continuation
of Western Territory", i.e. Washington and Oregon,
probably added because of the Lewis & Clark
expedition. The dating of this map is uncertain, though
it likely dates circa 1819-22. There is a large "Arkansa"
Territory with “Little Rock or Arkopolis”;
Michigan is named only on the lower peninsula; Illinois (1818)
and Florida and Louisiana (1819-21) have modern
boundaries. It is unclear if Missouri is identified as a
state (1821) or territory. Texas is not named. Longitude
west from Greenwich, blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 220
miles. Size: 8 x 10 inches. |
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1821
UNITED STATES, London:Published
by C. Smith, Mapseller, 172 Strand, Jany. 6th. 1821. Page
30 from Smith's New General Atlas by Charles
Smith. Dates of 1815, 1816, 1822 have been found for this
atlas with the following listing: Smith's New general
atlas : containing distinct maps of all the
principal empires, kingdoms, & states throughout the
world, arranged according to the general treaty signed in
Congress at Vienna, June 1815 Publisher: London : printed
for C. Smith, mapseller extraordinary to His Majesty,
1822. Maps engraved by E. Jones, B. Smith, and J. Bye.
This map shows the east coast from Nova Scotia to a cut
off Florida which is shown in an inset, and west to the
Mississippi. Illinois (created 1818), Mississippi (1817)
and Alabama (1819) are shown but not Missouri (1821).
Pennsylvania is shown without the Erie triangle.
Longitude west from Greenwich, blank verso. Scale: 1 inch
= 220 miles. Size: 7 x 9 inches. |
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1822
GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, AND HISTORICAL MAP OF
PENNSYLVANIA, Engraved by J. Yeager, Plate No. 18 from
the first edition of H. C. Carey and I. Lea's American
Atlas, Philadelphia 1822. The census date of 1820 is
on the map in text along the bottom. The map itself is on
the top half of the page. Other editions of this atlas
appeared in 1823, 1827 (Lister). Listed on page 680 of
Phillips. Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 22 miles. Size: 12
x 18 inches (map only). |
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1823
PENNSYLVANIA, B. T. Welch & Co. Sc. This map is from A
General Atlas of All the Known Countries of the World,
published by F. Lucas Jr., Baltimore 1823. It can be
dated 1820-31 by the counties shown. Lucas first
published an atlas c1816 per Lister. Blank verso. Scale:
1 inch = 20 miles. Size: 11 x 17.5 inches. |
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1824
MAP NO. 1 THE OHIO from The Navigator:
Containing Directions for Navigating the Ohio, and
Mississippi Rivers; With an Ample Account of These Much
Admired Waters...And a Concise Description of Their Towns,
Villages, Harbors, Settlements, &c.With Maps of the
Ohio & Mississippi to Which is Added An Appendix,
Containing an Account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri
& Columbia Rivers, As Discovered By the Voyage Under
Captains Lewis & Clark, by Zadok Cramer, printed
and published by Cramer & Spear, Franklin Head
Bookstore, Wood Street, Pittsburgh 1824. The first
edition of Cramer's Navigator was printed by
John Scull in Pittsburgh in 1802. Cramer died in 1813 but
his Navigator continued to be published into the
1840s. It was the first navigational guide to the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers and important for developing
shipping. It contains a woodcut map of Pittsburgh &
the Falls of the Ohio, along with twelve woodcut maps of
the Ohio, and thirteen of the Mississippi. This map is
the first of the Ohio and the Pittsburgh point is shown
at the top. The maps are almost too crude to be used and
pilots relied upon the written instructions. See the
modern river pilot's map for 1974. The appendix on Lewis
and Clark was first included in the 1808 edition. Cramer
also published a Pittsburgh Almanac c1800. Size:
7 x 4 inches. This book is now on line at Historic
Pittsburgh. |
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1825
MAP OF THE ROUTES IN NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND &
PENNSYLVANIA, DRAWN FOR THE NORTHERN TRAVELLER, D.S.
Throop sc., printed at W. Hooker's Nautical Office, 202
Water Street N. York. This small map is two sheets
folding along a vertical centerline and is undated. It
shows the northeast with straight lines connecting towns.
The ones identified in Pennsylvania are Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading, Orwigsburg, Mt. Carbon;
the importance of these last two towns is a mystery. The
Library of Congress has 7 records of The Northern
Traveller by Theodore Dwight dating from 1825 to
1834. All contain maps and this particular map appears to
have been used in several editions. No longitude, blank
verso. Scale: 1 inch = 110 miles. Size: 6 x 7 inches. |
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1826
MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE CONSTRUCTED
FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITES, published by A. Finley,
Philad., J. H. Young Sc., D. H. Vance Del. This map is
from Anthony Finley's New American Atlas published
in 1826 (Lister). It can be dated 1820-31 by counties
shown. Populations by county in 1810 and 1820 are printed
on the map. Listed on page 680 of Phillips. Blank verso.
Scale: 1 inch = 18 miles. Size: 17 x 22 inches. |
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1827
MAP OF THE COUNTRY EMBRACING THE SEVERAL ROUTES EXAMINED
WITH A VIEW TO A NATIONAL ROAD FROM WASHINGTON TO LAKE
ONTARIO, compiled by F. Harrison, Jr., drawn by A. J.
Stansbury, engraved by W. Harrison, Georgetown D. C. This
map comes from the 1827 House of Representatives report, Road
from Washington to Buffalo per Phillips p.884, and
is from the Government Printing Office. It covers an area
from Washington north to the Pennsylvania-New York border.
Two portions of north and south Pennsylvania from this large
map are shown here; note the prominent display of roads.
The National Road west (called the Cumberland Road and
not shown on this map) was proposed in an 1806 Act of
Congress. It was planned as a way to tie the states being
created from the old Northwest Territory, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, into the east. In 1822 a bill for
repair of the road and authority to collect tolls passed
the Congress, but was vetoed by President Monroe. He held
that Congress did not have the right of jurisdiction and
construction, but Monroe also recommended a national
system of internal improvements. A number of alternatives
were examined for additional 'National Roads', including
a route up the Susquehanna River valley shown on this map.
However only the Old National Road, today's US 40, was
constructed by the Federal government during the 19th
century. Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 5 miles. Size: 38 x
17 inches. |
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1828
MAP OF THE SEVERAL CANALS & RAIL ROADS BY WHICH THE
LYCOMING COAL CAN BE SENT TO MARKET, from A Brief
Description of the Property Belonging to the Lycoming
Coal Company, with some General Remarks on the Subject of
the Coal and Iron Business, Poughkeepsie: Printed by
P. Potter. Dec. 1828. No author of the report is
identified and it was presumably prepared by company
management. There are two unattributed maps attached to
the front and the first is shown here. A rail line is
shown from Philadelphia to Columbia on the Susquehanna
River and this is one of the earliest maps to show a rail
line in the state. The Schuylkill and Union canal, a
canal along the Susquehanna, the Hudson & Delaware
canal, the C & D (Chesapeake & Delaware) canal,
and the Erie canal are all shown. The second map in the
report is a large scale map of the coal tract, identified
on this map by a small rectangle. It lay at the
confluence of Lycoming Creek and Red Run along the West
Branch of the Susquehanna. Longitude west from Greenwich.
Blank verson. Scale: 1 inch = 35 miles. Size: 9 x 6
inches. |
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1829
UNITED STATES, drawn & engraved by Sidy.
Hall, Bury Str. Bloomsby. London, published by Longman,
Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, 1829.
This map is from A General Atlas of Ancient and Modern
Geography, by Samuel Butler, first published in 1829
with later editions. And no, this is not the Samuel
Butler who wrote The Way of All Flesh; he was
born in 1835. The map by the English cartographer Sydney
Hall shows the United States east of the Mississippi.
Texas is labeled as Mexico Territory; Wisconsin is a
large territory; Michigan is contained to the peninsula;
Missouri is there; Arkansas extends through Oklahoma;
Alabama and Georgia are not correctly shown. There is an
inset map of southern Florida. The outline color is
probably a later addition. Longitude west from Greenwich,
blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 200 miles. Size: 7.25 x 9.25
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