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1870
PENNSYLVANIA, entered according to act of Congress in the
year 1870 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr...., drawn and
engraved by W. H. Gamble, Philadelphia. Gamble was a
noted engraver and his name appears on many maps from the
late 1800's. This hand colored map is page 25 from a
Mitchell atlas, the date on the bottom has been
overprinted, so an older map was just printed with a new
date. Note how the map overlays the border. Longitude
from Washington at bottom, west from Greenwich at top.
Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 23 miles. Size: 11.5 x 14
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1871
ANDERSON'S RAIL ROAD MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA,
published by J. L. Smith, No. 27 South Sixth Street,
Phila. Successor to R. L. Barnes. This large map folds
into a 6 X 4 inch black cover with the above name. The
title on the map is MAP OF THE RAILROADS OF PENNSYLVANIA
AND PARTS OF ADJOINING STATES 1871, prepared from
official data by J. A. Anderson, Supt. of the Belvidere
Delaware Rail Road. Lith. Jas. McGuigan, Phila. The
railroads are marked with red lines laid down on a black
& white map using a stencil, and only towns along
rail lines are named. A small section of western
Pennsylvania is shown in one view and a larger part of the east
in another. Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch =
8 miles. Size: 28 x 39 inches. |
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1872
MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA COLORED TO ILLUSTRATE THE
DISTRIBUTION OF ITS FLORA by Thos. C. Porter, engraved by
W. S. Barnard, N. Y. This map is from Atlas of
Pennsylvania with Descriptions by O. W. Gray & H.
F. Walling, published by Stedman, Brown & Lyon,
Philadelphia 1872. This atlas is the most notable one
ever published on the state and had 110 pages. There were
21 pages of directories, 20 maps showing all 66 (at that
time) counties, 10 city maps, 4 state theme maps of which
this is one, a large map of Pennsylvania and one of the
United States. The atlas is listed as L2995, L6140 in
LeGear and on pages 684-85 of Phillips. It was reproduced
by the Bookmark Co., Knightstown, IN in 1977. The verso
of this map is page 23 with an article on education in
Pennsylvania and containing population data from 1870.
Scale: 1 inch = 20 miles. Size: 12.5 x 17 inches. |
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1873
BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF HIGHSPIRE DUPHIN CO.
PENNSYLVANIA 1873, drawn by H. Brosius, published by J. J.
Stoner, Madison, Wis. A numbered table identifies
buildings shown. Dauphin Co. is misspelled. This is one
of the famous bird's eye views which are sometimes called
maps. This one does not appear in Stout's otherwise
comprehensive Union Catalog of Pennsylvania town
views, where 324 different views are listed. The Library
of Congress has a large collection of Pennsylvania
panoramic town maps, 205 of them (but not this one), on
display at Panoramic
Maps Collection.
Another large collection is in the state archives. Blank
verso. Size: 17 x 21 inches. |
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1874 ASHER
& ADAMS PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY , entered in the
year 1874 by Asher & Adams... This hand colored map
is pages 23 & 24 probably from Asher & Adams
Commercial and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States
(LeGear L55). The map includes southern New York, and
northern West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. The western section of the state is shown
in one view and the eastern in another. Longitude from
Washington at bottom, west from Greenwich at top. Blank
verso. Scale: 1 inch = 20 miles. Size: 16 x 23 inches. |
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1875
WATSON’S NEW COUNTY, RAILROAD AND DISTANCE MAP, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, AND NEW JERSEY, page 9 from an atlas by
Gaylord Watson, probably Watson's New Commercial
County and Railroad Atlas of the United States and
Dominion of Canada, New York 1875. The map also
includes southern New York and northern Maryland and
Delaware. The rail lines are shown by heavy black line.
This map may hold the Pennsylvania record for density of
town names, there is scarcely an open spot on it. No
longitude marks, blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 22 miles.
Size: 12 x 16 inches. |
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1876
GRAY'S RAILROAD AND COUNTY MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA, entered
according to act of Congress in the year 1874 by O. W.
Gray...., copyright 1876 by O. W. Gray. Rail lines are
shown with some towns, especially those along the rails,
on this hand colored map shown here with east and west images. This map, in various
versions, was used by several county atlas publishers.
Longitude west from Greenwich. Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch
= 12.5 miles. Size: 14.5 x 24 inches. |
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1877
PENNSYLVANIA, from A Geography of Pennsylvania
by Charles R. Coffin, published by Sheldon & Co., New
York. This map has printed color and part of the sheet is
filled with text; the verso has the title, author, and
date given above. Luzerne and Lackawanna county are not
differentiated by color, but Lackawanna County (established
1878) is indicated, so the color printing process was not
corrected. Coffin's contribution was an insert in an
edition of Colton's Common School Geography
published after 1878. Scale: 1 inch = 20 miles. Size: 15
x 9 inches. |
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1878
PITTSBURGH & WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: COAL & COKE
FIELDS, OIL REGIONS & LOCATION OF NATURAL GAS WELLS
& GAS MAINS LEADING TO PITTSBURGH. Issued by the
Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh. Otto Krebs Lith. This
map is of uncertain date, but is likely circa 1875-80. It
shows the western half of the state east to Altoona. Rail
lines are indicated and mountains by hatching, with many
towns along the rails also named. Krebs was active from
about 1870 to 1890 and printed (or rather lithographed)
several of the classic county atlases. Scale: 1 inch = 6.5
miles. Size: 28 x 19 inches. |
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1879
RAILROAD & COUNTY MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA , prepared for
the annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of
Pennsylvania, (Part IV) for the year 1879. Only towns
lying along rail lines are shown on this hand colored map,
rivers are shown but not mountains or roads. Only the
northwest section of the state is shown here. Longitude
from Washington at top, west from Greenwich at bottom.
Blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 12 miles. Size: 15 x 24
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