Shows Florida including towns, townships, counties, lakes, islands, and railroads. Also shows the Florida Keys, and parts of Alabama and Georgia. Disston, son of Philadelphia saw mill magnate Henry Disston, purchased the Florida land in 1881., Includes inset of middle and southern Florida showing Orange, Sumter, Polk, Hernando, Manatee, Hillsborough and Monroe counties. Includes towns, rivers, lakes, islands, and railroads, Contains promotional text below neat line describing the advantages of the purchasable land including "Orange Groves, Vineyards, Early Vegetables, Tropical Fruits and Farming - Ready Access by Railroad and Steamboat Lines - Below general frost line - Ready market for products - Social advantages" as well as notice of a "Homestead Installment" plan. Also states to apply to the Florida Land & Improvement Co., N. E. cor. Third & Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia for descriptive map and full information., Includes "References" to railways finished and in progress; townships of 36 square miles; the embracing lands of Florida Land & Improvement Co. and Atlantic & Gulf Coast Canal & Okeechobee Land Co.; and route of Atlantic Coast Steamboat Canal & Improvement Co., Uncut informational pamphlet pages for the land company printed on verso including the names of the officers; descriptions of the area's history topography, politics, society, and climate; financial and legal information about purchases of land; farming tips about where, when, how and what to plant and market; and descriptions of the counties.
Creator
Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***maps -Florida [132 M]
Shows the area bounded by McKeon Street, Thirty-Sixth Street, Somerset Street, and the Delaware River. Includes ward numbers, street names, railroads, bridges, cemeteries, waterworks, and names of wharves. Also shows Smith and Windmill islands and part of Camden, N.J. including Kaighn's Point. Laurel Hill and South Laurel Hill Cemetery and Reading Railroad Company coal wharves depicted outside the neat line. Boundaries of wards marked with watercolor., Relief shown pictorially., Printed in upper right corner: No. 23., Published in George W. Colton's General atlas (New York: J. H. Colton & Co., 1858), plate no. 23., Gift of Seymour Toll.
Creator
Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901
Date
c1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1855 [P.2005.16.1]
Street map of Philadelphia showing Center City, Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, Kensington, Dist. of Penn, Moyamensing, and Southwark. Includes street names, railroads, public buildings, and names of wharves along the Delaware River. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia and Passyunk., Relief shown pictorially., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Hazzard, J. L., engraver
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1853 [299 M 27]
Property map showing building lots, streets, and squares between Pensacola Bay, Bayou Texar, and Cervalos Street. Also shows the Pensacola and Blakely Railroad and depot, a cemetery, a park, and Bayou Cadet., Relief shown pictorially., Depth shown by form lines., Facsmile of signed statement of authenticity printed below title: A true copy from the original, George E. Chase, Surveyor; W.H. Chase, Trustee., Includes notes about the size of the lots and about sold lots being bounded by heavy lines., Includes lot numbers., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Price & Graham
Date
[ca. 1836]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps [301 M 1], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps [301 M 7]
Plan of the city of Philadelphia east of Broad Street showing the location of fire stations for nine volunteer hose companies founded between 1803 and 1806 including Philadelphia, Good Intent, Resolution, Humane, Neptune, Perserverance, Hope, Columbia, and Southwark. Contains a vignette of the Centre Square Waterworks, and a key providing the names of many small courts and alleys., Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
Creator
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, delineator
Date
ca. 1809
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Maps - 1809 [6521.F]
Depicts the British island conquered from Spain in 1797, settled in the 1780s by French Caribbean plantation owners, St. Domingo refugees, and enslaved people. Shows the sites of the sugar, coffee, cotton, and cocoa plantations in the southwest and southeast regions of the island., Title from item., Reissued by Laurie & Whittle in 1809., Relief shown by hachures, landform drawings, and form lines., Depth shown by soundings., Prime Meridian: Port of Spain., Includes index "The Island of Trinidad is Divided into the following Quarters.", Table printed on recto: The Population of the I. of Trinidad 1797: Whites. Colour. Slaves. Indians. Men. Women. Boys. Girls., Text printed on recto: Note. This Species of Cocoa Trees are not natural to the Island, a Vessel from Oronoko laden with the Fruit was wreck’d on that Coast some years since, from whence the present Trees sprang which thrive exceedingly well., Acquired before 1950., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Allen, George, active 1790-1821, engraver
Date
12th Decr. 1800
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps [135 M]
Detailed map of the West Indies and depicting part of Florida, Central America, and South America, including the names of the islands, capes, bays, rivers, lakes, and keys of the region. From 1794 to 1815 Britain and France fought for dominion of the West Indies., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: Winter Botham's America; William Priestman Philadelphia 266 Arch St. 1944., Relief shown by hachures and landform drawings., Depth shown by soundings., Prime Meridian: London., Published in William Winterbotham's An Historical, geographical, commercial and philosophical view of the American United States (London:... H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, 1795) vol. IV, between pages 228 and 229, and in later editions of the same work., Accessioned 1879., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Russell, John, active 1733-1795, engraver
Date
Novr. 29, 1794
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps-West Indies 1794 [Log 1303.F.6]
Map showing the West Indies including the Bahama Isles, Carribe Isles, Great Antilles, and Little Antilles as colonies of the European nations of England, France, Spain, Denmark, and the Netherlands., Relief shown by landform drawings., Depth shown by soundings., Shows the Tropic of Cancer., Cartouche depicts a bare-chested, bare-footed, Black enslaved man, attired in knee-length pants, moving crates near a white planter and trader engaging in business by the shore. A tall ship sails in the distance., Also shows Cape of Florida and part of South America., Prime Meridians: London and Ferro., Variant published in editions of George Henry Millar's The new and universal system of geography...(London: Alex. Hogg, 1782, 1783, and 1785?)., Acquired before 1950., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Kitchin, a premier English cartographer, was known for his detailed title cartouches.
Creator
Kitchin, Thomas, 1718-1784, engraver
Date
[178-]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps [319 M 1]
Oriented with north to the right., From Fayr Hall, A short account of the first settlement of the provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania ..., In map box: 305 M 4- 307 M 53, Cf. Am 1735 Hal., Retrospective conversion record: Marc Link database.
Creator
Senex, John, d. 1740
Date
1735
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps [305 M 40]
Physical and political map of Africa with the Arabian Peninsula, some parts of the Near East, and a portion of the Mediterranean region. A marginal illustration in the lower left-hand corner portrays African hunters and various indigenous animals, including two elephants., Fold-out map in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?]), p. 16, The insert in the lower left-hand corner reads: "Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique, avec ses Royaumes, Provinces, Iles et Riviéres, suirant les Relations les plus recentes Voyageurs donnée au Public par Pierre Vander AA, Marchand Libraire À Leide.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1729?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F p 16, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2952
Physical and political map of the Western coast of Central Africa. A marginal illustration in the lower left-hand corner features African kings and hunters, as well as various indigenous animals, including two elephants and a lion. It also shows a few Europeans trading with African merchants. In the background, several figures bathe in an idyllic landscape., Folded map in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?]), n.p., In the absence of pagination, 31 has been written next to the plate., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1729?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F 31, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2942
Dedicated to W. Penn, Esq. proprietor and governor by John Harris. With references to settlements and the names of owners, also with plan of Philadelphia (inset) "two miles in length and one in breadth.", Date inferred from address of distributor., Second state of John Harris edition of Holme's map originally published in 1687., See Walter Klinefelter, "Surveyor General Thomas Holme's 'Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania,' " Winterthur portfolio 6 (1970): 65-74., Ms. annotation: "Published about 1690 according to J.R. Smith, London of whom I bought it. B. Moran.", Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.
Creator
Holme, Thomas, d. 1695
Date
[ca. 1718-ca. 1737]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department flat 2 x 3 [6534.F]