This map of the peninsula between Delaware & Chesopeak Bays, with the said bays and shores adjacent drawn from the most accurate surveys.
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Inscribed "To the American Philosophical Society." Hand colored. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 710/1
- Date
- 1778
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Churchman, John; American Philosophical Society
- Place
- Maryland
- Scale
- 1:650,000
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 5,206 × 6,986 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
"This map of the peninsula between Delaware & Chesopeak Bays, with the said bays and shores adjacent drawn from the most accurate surveys." (1778). Churchman, John; American Philosophical Society. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_map_of_the_peninsula_between_Delaware_%26_Chesopeak_Bays,_with_the_said_bays_and_shores_adjacent_drawn_from_the_most_accurate_surveys._LOC_gm71000974.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 120130.
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