MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | 1848_Greenleaf_Map_of_Virginia_-_Geographicus_-_Virginia-greenleaf-1848.jpg (3500x2951) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: 1848 Greenleaf Map of Virginia - Geographicus - Virginia-greenleaf-1848.jpg A fine example of J Greenleaf's 1848 map of Virginia This map covers all of what is today Virginia and West Virginia as well as the entire Chesapeake Bay and adjacent parts of Ohio Pennsylvania North Carolina and Maryland Greenleaf's cartographically sophisticated map is based on early work by David Burr and incorporates political and topographical data naming cities towns rail lines roads mountains swamps and rivers Color coding at the county Level An inset in the upper left quadrant details the western part of Virginia which runs off the main map Issued as plate no 42 in the 1848 edition of Greenleaf's New Universal Atlas Though a revision and reissue of Greenleaf's 1842 atlas this edition is in fact far rarer and is not listed in Phillips 1848 undated Size in 13 11 object history credit line accession number Virginia-greenleaf-1848 Greenleaf J <i>A New Universal Atlas; Comprising Separate Maps Of all the Principal Empires Kingdoms States Throughout the World and forming a distinct Atlas Of The United States </i> 1848 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Old maps of Virginia 1848 maps | ||||
