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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal report

The maps show the proposed route for an automobile parkway following the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal between the Washington (D.C.) boundary and Cumberland (Md.). Title from title page of accompanying text. In upper margin on all sheets: National Park Service. Statement of attribution at foot of title on the three 1:75,000-scale map sheets: Branch of Development, National Capital Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior. Additional statement of attribution in lower left margin on the 1:75,000-scale sheets: National Park Service, Branch of Development, History Division, National Capital Parks, Bureau of Public Roads. Each of the 1:75,000-scale maps includes several circular insets, a sheet assembly diagram, and pictorial illustrations in the map area. Accompanied by text booklet (81st Congress, 2d Session--House Document No. 687): Chesapeake & Ohio Canal report--Letter from Assistant Secretary of the Interior (x, 87 pages: illustrations, tables, diagrams; 24 cm). In lower margin on all sheets: 71542 O - 50.

Date
1950
Mapmaker / publisher
United States. National Park Service; National Capital Parks Service; United States. Bureau Of Public Roads; United States. Government Printing Office
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Sheets
8
Original size
4,884 × 3,072 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (NPS).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US NPS; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Chesapeake & Ohio Canal report" (1950). United States. National Park Service; National Capital Parks Service; United States. Bureau Of Public Roads; United States. Government Printing Office. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chesapeake_%26_Ohio_Canal_report_LOC_2017593336-1.jpg

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All 8 sheets

Each sheet links to its file at the archive; the image link is the full-size scan.

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