Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania
from original surveys
Bowen, John S.
Yeager, E. (Edward)
cartographic
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Philadelphia?
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1847
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1 map : hand col., cloth backing ; 95 x 112 cm., folded to 54 x 62 cm.
by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen ; projection & drawing by J.S. Bowen ; engraved by Edw'd Yeager, Philad'a.
General-content county map also showing rural buildings and householders' names; larger real-property tracts with owners' names shown only in West Chester borough inset.
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridian: Washington D.C.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen ... in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries and territories.
LC copy 1 imperfect: Darkened, fold-lined, quartered to fold to 54 x 62 cm., has ghost title (reversed) at head of printed title; copy 2 incomplete, rubber-stamped, annotated. DLC
Includes note, statistical table, "Borough of West Chester" inset, and inset of the Newark triangle (later transferred to New Castle County, Del.).
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Scale [ca. 1:63,360. 1 in. = 1 mile].
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G3823.C5 1847 .P3
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3823c.la000723
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