Alden's pictorial map of the United States of North America : with a map of Texas, Oregon, and California

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Author

Alden, Albert, 1812-1883, cartographer, publisher.

Title

Alden's pictorial map of the United States of North America : with a map of Texas, Oregon, and California.

Publication

Barre, Mass. : Published by Albert Alden, 1847.

Physical Description

1 map : hand colored ; 70 x 94 cm

Cartographic Detail

Scale approximately 1:2,840,000 (W 98°39'--W 66°40'/N 47°46'--N 24°37').

Local Notes

BEIN Roll Map 296: Impefect: lower right corner mutilated, with loss of border image. Mounted on linen, with wooden strip at top and wooden rod at bottom. From the library of Jonathan T. Lanman.

BEIN Roll Map 422: Imperfect: extremely brittle, mutilated at top, with loss of map image. Mounted on linen, with wooden strip at top and wooden rod at bottom.

Notes

Relief shown by hachures.

Prime meridian: Washington D.C. Coordinates converted by cataloger to express longitude as measured from the Greenwich meridian.

Insets: [Southern part of Florida] --Northern boundary of Maine, according to the treaty of Washington, 1842 -- Texas, Oregon and part of Mexico.

Bordered by illustrations showing towns, landscapes, and buildings.

Access and use

BEIN Roll Map 296: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.

BEIN Roll Map 422: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.

Variant and related titles

Pictorial map of the United States of North America

Format

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