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In ink on verso: "L L L". In pencil on recto: "No 93 L". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Bethlehem in Albany County, East Greenbush and Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York. Shows roads running through Albany, East Greenbush and Schodack Center. Also shows buildings and owners names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. 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. Watermark: "T & C" accompanied by plow; similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 635 and (less closely) 105.
PID
nyhs:243387
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004524
n000188m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
From Albany towards Fishkill. No 93, L / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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digitized other analog
Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 42 x 34 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W73⁰47ʹ--W73.⁰40ʹ/N42⁰39ʹ--N42⁰32ʹ)