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War telegram marking map.

Scale ca. 1:490,000. ), 465.7 Base map depicting eastern Virignia printed in brown ink. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by L. Prang & Co." "Explanations. The extraordinary large scale on which this map is drawn has been adopted to make it just what we designed it to be, namely 1st. The most distinct map ever published of the whole Virginia territory, where the decisive battles for the Union will be fought. 2nd. A marking map, that is a map to mark the change of positions of the Union forces in red pencil and the rebel forces in blue, on the receipt of every telegram from the seat of war."

Date
1862
Mapmaker / publisher
Louis Prang And Company
Scale
1:490,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,985 × 10,441 pixels

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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.

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"War telegram marking map." (1862). Louis Prang And Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:War_telegram_marking_map._LOC_99466788.jpg

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