Map Delaware--1787

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Delaware--1787

Names

  • United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, cartographer, publisher.
  • Churchman, John, 1753-1805, cartographer.
  • American Philosophical Society, distributor.

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.] : United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, [1937?]

Headings

  • -  Delaware--Maps
  • -  Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Harbors--Delaware--Maps
  • -  United States--Delaware
  • -  United States--Delaware--Delaware Bay

Genre

  • Maps

Notes

  • -  Newly drawn map of the State of Delaware as it was in the year 1787.
  • -  Also covers the Delaware Bay (entire).
  • -  "Simplified from a 1787 map by John Churchman. Original in the Library of Congress."
  • -  Prime "Meridian of Philad'a--5h.0.35 west from Greenwich".
  • -  Includes reproduced title cartouche of the original 1787 map at upper right: To the American Philosophical Society--this map of the peninsula between Delaware & Chesapeak Bays ... is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Medium

  • 1 map : color ; x cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3830 1787 .U5

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017593518

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

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Chicago citation style:

United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Cartographer, Publisher, John Churchman, and Distributor American Philosophical Society. Delaware. [Washington, D.C.: United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, ?, 1787] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017593518/.

APA citation style:

United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, C., Churchman, J. & American Philosophical Society, D. (1787) Delaware. [Washington, D.C.: United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017593518/.

MLA citation style:

United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Cartographer, Publisher, John Churchman, and Distributor American Philosophical Society. Delaware. [Washington, D.C.: United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, ?, 1787] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017593518/>.