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Source Description
General-content county map showing rural buildings with householders' names; also shows householders' names in inset street maps.
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Document identity
localId
4m90fd03v
label
Map of Washington Co., Pennsylvania
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
4m90fd03v
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of Washington Co., Pennsylvania
description
General-content county map showing rural buildings with householders' names; also shows householders' names in inset street maps.
date
["1861"]
year
1861
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_011478
creators
Beers, S. N.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Landowners--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps
Cities and towns--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps
Villages--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps
Business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Directories
Washington County (Pa.)--Maps
Washington (Washington County, Pa.)--Maps
Monongahela (Pa.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Monongahela
North and Central America
Pennsylvania
United States
Washington (county)
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Pennsylvania
county
Washington
city
Monongahela
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Philadelphia
publisher
A. Pomeroy & S.W. Treat ; Assistant publishers G.G. Soule & E.H. Quick
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
40.2
schema:longitude
-79.9167
extent
1 map on 4 sheets : hand col. ; 147 x 153 cm.
notes
General-content county map showing rural buildings with householders' names; also shows householders' names in inset street maps.
Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by A. Pomeroy in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylv'a."
BPL assembled, sectioned into 4 pieces and mounted on cloth.
Relief shown by hachures.
Includes distance table, business directories for most insets, and col. ill.
Street-map insets: Washington [city] -- Monongahela City -- Venice -- Fredericktown -- Prosperity -- Candor -- Cross Creek -- Eldersville -- Claysville -- Hickory -- West Alexander -- Florence -- Paris -- Hillsborough -- Amity -- West Brownsville -- Ten Mile Village -- California -- Granville -- Cannonsburg -- Beallsville -- Centreville -- Millsborough -- Taylorstown -- Bentleysville -- Greenfield -- Burgettstown -- West Middletown -- Independence.
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no
dcId
4m90fd03v
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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