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Title: Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Civil War military campaign and battle maps
Description: Maps show troop movements; fortifications and battlegrounds; routes to and from sites of military engagements; headquarters and camps; local architecture; topography, including railroads, rivers, and roadways; state and county lines; towns, cities, and capitals; and vegetation. Two of the maps also include remarks by military surveyor T. Ditterline describing troop movements during the Battle of Gettysburg. Two maps contain portraits of prominent political and Union military figures including President Lincoln, William H. Seward, General George McClellan, General Winfield Scott, and General Robert Anderson., Includes Maps of the District of Columbia, Baltimore with Ft. McHenry, Ft. Monroe and the Atlantic States, with their Rail Road Connections, Coast Lines, &.; A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U. S. Navy Yard and all other Fortifications from the latest Government Surveys; Sketch of Vicinity of Fort Fisher; Plan and Sections of Fort Fisher carried by assault by the U. S. Forces, Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, Commanding, Jan. 15th, 1865; Colton’s United States Shewing(sic) the Military Stations, Forts &.; Map of the Seat of War, Supplement to P. S. Duval & Son’s Military Map showing the location of the present Military Operations (1861); Map of the Battlefield of Antietam; Battlefield of Chattanooga with the operations of the National Forces under the command of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant during the battles of Nov. 23, 24 & 25, 1863; Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863; Map of the Battle Ground of Manassas [i.e., Bull Run] from Actual Surveys by an Officer of Genl. Beauregard’s Staff Shewing [sic] the exact position occupied by Federal & Rebel forces in the battle of 21st July 1861; Battle of Gettysburg Showing the Position of the Two Contending Armies During the First, Second & Third of July 1863; Map of the Southern States including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships; and Part of Charleston Harbor: embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James and Morris Islands and showing the position of the Star of the West when fired into from Morris Island. A Civil War era political map of Pennsylvania for the 1863 Governor's race and a Map of The Grounds and Design for the Improvement of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. 1863 also included as part of the collection., Various publishers and lithographers including W. Boell; J.H. Colton; P.S. Duval & Son; Engineer Bureau, War Dept.; Charles G. Kreb; Lithographers' Association of New York; E. Molitor ; L. Prang & Co.; George T. Perry; T.B. Pugh; J.G. Shoemaker; Jacob Weiss; and Benjamin Wrigley., Various surveyors and engineers including Brvt. Brig. Gen. C. B. Comstock; T. Ditterline; William Saunders; Private Otto Julian Schultze; Lt. Wm. H. Willcox; and members of the U.S. Coast Survey, including Captains F. W. Dorr and J. W. Donn, Maj. Morhardt, Capts. Ligowsky, McDowell, Jenney and Lts. Boeckh and Dahl, and U. S. Vol’s. Capt. Preston and C. F. West., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures., Majority of maps include a scale and a compass., Several maps include key to Union and Confederate troop positions., Two maps [5779.F.79a & 80a] contain insets. Insets show Washington, D.C.; Baltimore south to Annapolis, Maryland; Cairo, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee; Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; and the area from Winchester, Virginia to Morgantown, Maryland., Manuscript note on map 5779.F.107a: John A. McAllister from [D. McCoughy?], Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks containing Civil War views and Robert Anderson material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps - Civil War military campaign and battle [5779.F.76b; 79a; 80a; 81b; 82a; 83a; 84a; 85b; 86a; 97a; 99a; 107a; 108a; 121a; 5794.F; P.2006.1.28]

Title: Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Florida Land and Improvement Company Hamilton Distton's purchase, 4, 000, 000 acres Showing area in which lands have been selected. Offices: Chestnut & Third Sts. Philadelphia, Pa, no. 113 Broadway, New York, Jacksonville, Fla
Description: 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]

Title: Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique
Description: 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

Title: Nigritie, ou le pays des Negres en Afrique, avec tous ses royaumes, bayes, rivieres et ports de mer, suivant les meilleurs relations de ceux qui ont ete sur les lieux, et nouvellement mise au jour
Description: 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

Title: Rules and regulations, and description of West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Montgomery County, near Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Collins, printer--t.p. verso., Fold. map front.; 1 fold. map., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator: Philadelphia (Pa.), West Laurel Hill Cemetery
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1882 Phi Wes Lau 10234.Q

Title: To the Hose Companies of Philadelphia this plan of the city is inscribed
Description: 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]

Title: A map of Virginia according to Captain Iohn Smith's map published anno 1606 also of the adjacent country called by the Dutch Niew Nederlant, anno 1630
Description: 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]

Title: A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America divided into countyes, townships and lotts
Description: 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]

Title: Map of the State of Florida
Description: Reproduced in 1875., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department folder [213 M]

Title: Plan of the new city of Pensacola
Description: 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]

Title: The Marches of Lord Cornwallis in the Southern Provinces, Now North America Comprehending the Two Carolinas, with Virginia and Maryland, and the Delaware Counties
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator: Faden, Wm
Date: 1787
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department flat 2 x 3 [Loganian 875.F.10]

Title: Plan of the City of Philadelphia 1800
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch S 3b [P.2276.2 (1882.V.3)]

Title: West Indies Agreeable to the most approv'd maps and charts
Description: 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]

Title: Plan of the isle of Trinidad from actual surveys made in the year 1797
Description: 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]

Title: An accurate map of the West Indies with the adjacent coast of America
Description: 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]

Title: To The Citizens of Philadelphia This Plan of The City and its Environs is respectfully dedicated By the Editor
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edits.
Date: [1796]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department flat 2 x 3 [5038 F 8]

Title: A Chart of the Sea Coast of New Found Land, New Scotland, New York, New Jersey with Virginia and Maryland and New England
Description: Cf. **Am 1749 Eng Pil The English pilot - The 4th book., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [1749]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department flat 2 x 3 [7995 F]

Title: Philadelphia
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Maps - Philadelphia - 1840 [P.9657]

Title: A map of the head of Chesapeake Bay and Susquehanna River Shewing the navigation of the same with a topographical description of the surrounding country from an actual survey by C.P. Hauducoeur, Engineer, 1799
Description: Inset of the plan of the town of Havre de Grace., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: [1799]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Maps - Chesapeake Bay - 1799 [10213.Q]

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