A Map of the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc.
Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil and watercolor. Has watermark. Imperfect: Eastern portion and southwest corner wanting. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Honourable House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania this map is most humbly inscribed by their most obedient and humble servant." Shows area from the Wabash River on the west to the Scioto River on the east, and from Lake Huron on the north to the Green River in Kentucky on the south. While one is not an exact copy of the other, there is great similarity to the "Traders map" ascribed to John Patten in Howard N. Eavenson's Map makers & Indian traders, 1949. On verso: No. 52. Map of the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania & Virginia &c. A sketch. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 651/2; 651/3
- Date
- 1753
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Patten, John
- Place
- Kentucky
- Scale
- 1:1,270,000
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,656 × 6,494 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
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