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Document identity
localId
w9505r594
label
A new and correct map of North America, with the West India Islands
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
w9505r594
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
A new and correct map of North America, with the West India Islands
description
Relief shown pictorially.
date
["1784"]
year
1784
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006068
creators
Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht, 1741-1810
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
North America
North and Central America
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[Augsburg?]
publisher
Mathew Albert and George Frederic Lotter
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
dn39z222j
schema:latitude
58.166
schema:longitude
-104.466
extent
1 map on 4 sheets : hand col. ; 100 x 112 cm., on sheets 51 x 57 cm.
notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Hand colored.
Prime meridian: Ferro and London.
"N.B. The letters E, F, S, D, Da, annexed to the names of the islands, denote them to belong either to the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danes, &c."
Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay -- The passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698 and 1701.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
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no
dcId
w9505r594
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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