EB9 United States - historical maps (top)

4 historical maps of the United States, the top half of Plate VII. in the article "United States" in the American version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. ORIGINAL GRANTS, depicting the territory claimed by the Great Charter (1620, red NE diagonal) and by the English charters to Virginia (1609, blue SE diagonal), Massachusetts (1629, blue NE diagonal), Connecticut (1637, blue vertical), and Carolina (1663, red NE diagonal). 1776, depicting the territory claimed by the states of Massachusetts, Virginia, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; by the Spanish colonies yellow of New Spain and the Province of Louisiana (ceded by France to Spain in 1762); and by the British colonies red of Quebec and West and East Florida (both ceded by Great Britain to Spain in 1783). Total area of the United States in 1776 depicted with a thick blue line, State and Territorial divisions at this date depicted with thin blue lines, & Boundaries of the states and territories in 1880 depicted with a black dot-and-dash line. 1790, depicting various changes following the end of the American Revo

Date

1888

Mapmaker / publisher

from an original in Scribner's Historical Atlas, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, engraved by William & Alexander Keith Johnston

Place

the United States

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

2,488 × 1,803 pixels

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