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Map An accurate map, of the district of Maine, being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts : Compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c

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Title

  • An accurate map, of the district of Maine, being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts : Compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c

Names

  • Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816, cartographer

Created / Published

  • Boston : Published and sold by O. Carelton & J. Norman, [1795?]

Headings

  • -  Maine--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Maine--Boundaries--New Brunswick--Maps
  • -  United States--Maine
  • -  Canada--New Brunswick

Genre

  • Early maps

Notes

  • -  Shows county and township boundaries.
  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  Decorative title cartouche.
  • -  Explanation provides symbols for the identified human features.
  • -  "Taken by their order ; exhibiting the boundary lines of the district, the counties and towns, the principal roads, rivers, mountains, mines, islands, rocks, shoals, channels, lakes, ponds, falls, mills, manufactures and public buildings, with the latitudes and longitudes &c."
  • -  "N.B. As the surveys of some towns were not so full as others the roads & streams of those towns have been unavoidably discontinued."
  • -  From previous folder: The map of the District of Maine was issued in 1795. Editions were also issued in 1798, 1799, and 1802. Prelim. draft fo J.C. Wheat's "Maps published in America before 1800" contains note that Carelton sold maps only in 1795. He dates this map 1795.
  • -  Stamped at bottom right: Map Division Library of Congress, Mar 23 1904.
  • -  LC copy 1 imperfect: stained with losses along fold lines and mounted on cloth in 8 parts.
  • -  Wheat and Brun 1978, 170.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand colored ; 136 x 97 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3730 1795 .C32
  • G3730 1795 .C32 Copy 2, stained with slight losses along fold lines and mounted in 4 parts; stamped in red

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024597751

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Chicago citation style:

Carleton, Osgood, Cartographer. An accurate map, of the district of Maine, being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts: Compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. [Boston: Published and sold by O. Carelton & J. Norman, ?, 1795] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024597751/.

APA citation style:

Carleton, O. (1795) An accurate map, of the district of Maine, being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts: Compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. [Boston: Published and sold by O. Carelton & J. Norman, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024597751/.

MLA citation style:

Carleton, Osgood, Cartographer. An accurate map, of the district of Maine, being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts: Compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. [Boston: Published and sold by O. Carelton & J. Norman, ?, 1795] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024597751/>.