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The tourist's pocket map of the State of Illinois exhibiting its internal improvements, roads distances &c.
Title
The tourist's pocket map of the State of Illinois [cartographic material] : exhibiting its internal improvements, roads distances &c. / by J.H. Young ; engraved by E.F. Woodward, 1836.
Publication
[Philadelphia] : S. Augustus Mitchell, 1836.
Physical Description
1 map : color ; 36 x 29 cm, folded in covers, 13 x 8 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:1,840,000] (W 92°00ʺ--W 86°00ʺ/N 42°45ʺ--N 37°00ʺ).
Notes
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Shows township grid, counties, major cities and towns, "stage" roads and distances, and existing and proposed canals in Illinois; shows building locations, mineral resources and mining activity for Joe Daviess County in Illinois and Iowa County in "Ouisconsin" Territory on inset.
Includes legend, population table based on 1830 census, and table of steamboat routes.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1834 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Clerks office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvnia."
Prime meridian: Washington.
Inset: Map of the lead mine region east of the Mississippi River.
Inside cover: Text on "Public lands."
"Sold by Mitchell & Hinman, No. 6 North Fifth Street, Philada."
Variant and related titles
Mitchell's map of Illinois
Map of the state of Illinois
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2008
Subjects
Genre/Form
Tourist maps.
Maps.
Maps.
Also listed under
Mitchell & Hinman.
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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