Research Catalog

Title

A map of South Carolina : constructed and drawn from the district surveys, ordered by the Legislature / by John Wilson, late civil and military engineer of So. Cara.

Author

Wilson, John

Publication

[South Carolina] : [Board of Public Works], [1822]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Blackburn, George, 1765-1823.
• Elford, James M. (James Maud), 1771-1826.
• Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858
• South Carolina. Board of Public Works, publisher.

Description

1 map : hand colored; 110 x 150 cm

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US222.2.03

Subject

• Administrative and political divisions
• South Carolina > Maps
• South Carolina > Administrative and political divisions > Maps
• Charleston Harbor (S.C.) > Maps
• Charleston (S.C.) > Maps
• South Carolina

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Shows boundaries, meeting houses, post offices, taverns, private houses, mills, battle grounds, streams, roads, canals, marshes, and swamps.
• Relief shown by hachures.
• Inset map of Charleston Harbor.
• "The astronomical abservations by Professor Geo. Blackburn & I.M. Elford."
• "Engraved by H.S. Tanner, Philadelphia."
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, the 10th day of April 1822, by John Wilson, Agent of the Board of Public Works of the State of South Carolina."

Indexed In (note)

• Schwartz and Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Call Number

Map Div. 17-5290

OCLC

728387697

Author

Wilson, John, creator.

Title

A map of South Carolina : constructed and drawn from the district surveys, ordered by the Legislature / by John Wilson, late civil and military engineer of So. Cara.

Publisher

[South Carolina] : [Board of Public Works], [1822]

Cartographic Data

Scale 1:380,160. 6 miles to an inch (W 83°45ʹ--W 77°50ʹ/N 36°00ʹ--N 31°50ʹ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

Schwartz and Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America, p. 249

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 9, page 244, column 3, no. 3

Local Note

NYPL Map Div. copy is divided into 2 sheets 110 x 74 or smaller; has accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 58574.

Source

US222.2.03

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Blackburn, George, 1765-1823.

Elford, James M. (James Maud), 1771-1826.

Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858, engraver.

South Carolina. Board of Public Works, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 17-5290 [2 sheets]