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Source Description
General-content county map also showing buildings in rural areas, householders' names, and forested areas; real-property tracts, lot numbers, and building coverage also are shown in all the town/village insets (but esp. for Altoona, Hollidaysburg, and Tyrone).
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Document identity
localId
4m90f4966
label
Map of Blair County, Pennsylvania
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
4m90f4966
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of Blair County, Pennsylvania
description
General-content county map also showing buildings in rural areas, householders' names, and forested areas; real-property tracts, lot numbers, and building coverage also are shown in all the town/village insets (but esp. for Altoona, Hollidaysburg, and Tyrone).
date
["1859"]
year
1859
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_010930
creators
Geil & Freed
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Landowners--Pennsylvania--Blair County--Maps
Cities and towns--Pennsylvania--Blair County--Maps
Villages--Pennsylvania--Blair County--Maps
Real property--Pennsylvania--Altoona--Maps
Real property--Pennsylvania--Hollidaysburg--Maps
Real property--Pennsylvania--Tyrone--Maps
Blair County (Pa.)--Maps
Altoona (Pa.)--Maps
Hollidaysburg (Pa.)--Maps
Tyrone (Pa.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Altoona
Blair (county)
Hollidaysburg
North and Central America
Pennsylvania
Tyrone
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Pennsylvania
county
Blair
city
Altoona
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Philadelphia
publisher
Geil & Freed
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
40.5167
schema:longitude
-78.3833
extent
1 map : hand col., cloth backing ; 138 x 111 cm.
notes
General-content county map also showing buildings in rural areas, householders' names, and forested areas; real-property tracts, lot numbers, and building coverage also are shown in all the town/village insets (but esp. for Altoona, Hollidaysburg, and Tyrone).
Relief shown by hachures.
Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries and territories.
At foot of statement of attribution: Published by the authors.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859 by Isaac G. Freed in the ... Eastern District of Penn'a."
Originally printed on 4 sheets.
Includes business directories, table of road distances, and ill. of principal buildings.
Town and village insets: Altoona -- Hollidaysburg and Gaysport -- Fostoria -- Collinsville -- Frankstown -- Newry -- Charlotteville -- Davidsburg -- Tyrone City -- Williamsburg -- Martinsburg -- Freedom -- Tipton -- Claysburg -- Foot of Ten, Temperanceville, Duncansville.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
4m90f4966
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map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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eb0a4f84e07679bc