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Foxed, soiled, stained, torn and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto: "No 91 B". Military topographic map. Covers the counties of Luzerne, Columbia, Montour and Northumberland in Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Wyoming, Wilkes Barre, Berwick, Bloomsburg, Danville and Northumberland. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is in Erskine's hand and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermarks: "P U" together with fleur de lis in medallion. Possibly by Peter Ulrick--cf. Gravell, Thomas L. and Miller, George. A Catalogue of American watermarks 1690-1835, p. 207. NY: Garland, 1979.
PID
nyhs:243367
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004643
n000168m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
Road from Northumberland in the Jerseys to Wyoming. No 91, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map on two assembled sheets : ms. ; 34 x 75 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W76⁰48ʹ--W75.⁰50ʹ/N41⁰17ʹ--N40⁰53ʹ)