Research Catalog

Title

Post route map of the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and parts of New York and Maine / designed and constructed under the orders of Postmaster General Wm. Dennison and Second Ass't Postmaster Gen'l Geo. Wm. McLellan, by W.L. Nicholson, topographer of P.O. Dept., 1866 ; drawn by P. Goepel ; eng. by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.

Author

Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : United States of America Post Office Department, [1875]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goepel, Paul, 1844-1913
• McClelland, D.
• United States. Post Office Department, publisher.

Description

1 map on 2 sheets : hand colored; 149 x 93 cm, sheets 77 x 100 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US024.4.01

Subjects

• Railway mail service
• Postal service
• Railroads
• New York (State)
• Railway mail service > New York (State) > Maps
• Postal service > New York (State) > Maps
• New York (State) > Long Island
• Maps
• Railroads > New York (State) > Maps
• Railroads > New England > Maps
• Post roads > New York (State) > Maps
• Postal service > New England > Maps
• Post roads > New England > Maps
• Railway mail service > New England > Maps
• New England > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Also shows railroad routes.
• Longitude east from Washington, D.C. Also gives time differential for longitudes. Coordinates converted by cataloger to express longitude as measured from the Greenwich meridian.
• Boundaries of states and some postal routes in color.
• First issue of this map: 1866.
• "The service on this diagram brought up to date of January 1, 1875." "January 1" and "75" are manuscript additions in ink.
• Includes table of distances and table of general statistics for 1860 and 1866.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Call Number

Map Div. 15-5269

OCLC

948890014

Author

Nicholson, W. L. (Walter Lamb), 1825-1895, designer.

Title

Post route map of the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and parts of New York and Maine / designed and constructed under the orders of Postmaster General Wm. Dennison and Second Ass't Postmaster Gen'l Geo. Wm. McLellan, by W.L. Nicholson, topographer of P.O. Dept., 1866 ; drawn by P. Goepel ; eng. by D. McClelland, Washn., D.C.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : United States of America Post Office Department, [1875]

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:380,160. 6 miles to 1 in. (W 74°18ʹ--W 69°48ʹ/N 45°40ʹ--N 40°32ʹ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 6, page 803, column c, row 3

Source

US024.4.01

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added Author

Goepel, Paul, 1844-1913, draftsman.

McClelland, D., engraver.

United States. Post Office Department, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 15-5269 [Filed with New England 1866, as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary catalog of the Map Division]