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Historic Map and Government Documents CollectionMS-5

Historic Map and Government Documents CollectionMS-5


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University of Richmond

Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library
261 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
archives@richmond.edu
URL: https://library.richmond.edu/collections/rare/index.html

Joe Felix, Student Manager Betty Dickie, Special Collections Cataloging and Preservation Associate

Repository
University of Richmond
Identification
MS-5
Title
Historic Map and Government Documents Collection 1630-1943
Quantity
16 Files
Language
English .
Historic Map and Historic Map Collection
A collection of historical maps—1630-1898—original and facsimiles, and WWII prints—including "I am Ann" written and illustrated by Theodore Geisel.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Joe Felix and Betty Dickie. In Fall 2024 the materials were encapuslated, moved to flat storage, and the finding aid was updated with improved detail and formatting.

Scope and Contents

This collection is an eclectic grouping of maps and government documents transferred from the library's main circulating collection for reasons of historical significance or other considerations. Specific information is listed in the inventory below for individual documents and maps. Many are contemporary imprints.

Historic Map and Government Document Collection

The collection is housed in two boxes and grouped according to theme. There are 9 series:

Maps of Virginia Maps of Washington, DC A.D. Bache U.S. Coast Surveys Maps of Mexico, New Mexico, and Central America Assorted Survey Maps of the U.S. Plat and Street Alteration Maps of Washington D.C.—B.B. French and W. Forsyth Transportation Maps WWII Prints Assorted U. S. Financial Documents

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Maps
  • World War, 1939-1945

Container List

1
Series 1: Maps of Virginia
English.
  • Graphic Materials folder: 1 MS-5
    Nova Virginiae Tabula--John Smith, Jodocus Hondius, William Janszoon Blaeu
    1630-1640English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 1 MS-5
    Williamsburg, VA in 1781(1975 imprint)—Desandrouins
    1781English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 2
    Yorktown, VA in 1781(1976 imprint)--Maj. Capitaine du Chesnoy
    1781
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 3
    Plan of the town of Alexandria (1968 imprint)--T. Clark
    1798
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 4
    Plan of part of the city of Richmond (1970 imprint)--Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    1798
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 5
    Birds eye view of Alexandria, VA (1974 imprint).--Charles Magnus
    1863
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 6
    Perspective map of Newport News, VA (20th c. imprint)
    1891
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 7
    Virginia and West Virginia (1974 imprint)--?
    1891
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 8
    City of Williamsburg plan--John Graves Simco
    undated
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 9
    An exact copy of the plan of the town of Richmond (1974 imprint)--?
    undated
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 2 object: 10
    Richmond and Manchester, VA (1974 imprint)--Geo. F. Cram
    undated
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Series 2: Maps of Washington, D.C.
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 1 MS-5
    Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia --Andrew Ellicott
    17921964 imprintEnglish.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 2
    City of Washington, from behind the Navy(1977 imprint) --G. Cooke
    1834
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 3
    View of Washington (1975 imprint)--E. Sachse & Co.
    1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 4
    View of Georgetown D.C. (20th c. imprint)--E. Sachse & Co.
    1855
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 5
    View of Washington City (1968 imprint)--E. Sachse & Co.
    1862
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 6
    Washington City, DC (1965 imprint)--Theodore R. Davis
    1869
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 7
    View of Washington City (1978 imprint)--Sachse & Co.
    1871
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 8
    Sketch of Washington in Embryo (1978 imprint)--Dr. Joseph M. Toner
    1874
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 9
    Our National Capital viewed from the South (1965 imprint)--Theodore R. Davis
    1882
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 10
    The City of Washington (1970 imprint)--?
    1892
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 3 object: 11
    A map of the City of Washington (1971 imprint)--R. King
    undated
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3
Series 3: A.D. Bache U.S. Coast Surveys
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 1 MS-5
    Long Island to New Jersey, Atlantic Coast
    1844-1851English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 2
    New York City to Point Judith
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 3
    New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 4
    Chesapeake Bay
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 5
    Chesapeake Bay
    1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 6
    Cape Fear and vicinity
    1853
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 7
    Cape Fear and vicinity
    1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 8
    North Carolina Region
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 9
    South Carolina, Charleston Harbor
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 10
    South Carolina
    1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 11
    South Carolina
    1853
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 12
    South Carolina
    1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 13
    Florida Keys
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 14
    Florida
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 15
    Texas, Galveston Bay
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 16
    California, Catalina Harbor
    1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 17
    California, San Francisco
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 18
    United States, West Coast
    1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 19
    United States, West Coast
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 20
    United States, West Coast
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 4 object: 21
    United States, Atlantic Coast
    1854
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4
Series 4: Maps of Mexico, New Mexico, and Central America
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 1
    Map of the River of San Juan of Nicaragua-?
    1848English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 2
    Map of Central America--E. G. Squier
    1849
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 3
    Section, on the life of proposed ship-canal from San Juan to Realejo across the Isthmus of Nicaragua--Squier
    1849
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 4
    Map of Central America--James Wyld
    1850
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 5
    Disturnell's Treaty Map, in vicinity of Rio Grande and the southern boundary of New Mexico--?
    July 25, 1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 6
    Excerpt from the Treaty Map of Disturnell--J.D.Graham
    August 16, 1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 7
    Map of Nicaragua--Sarony & Major
    1851
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 8
    Topographical map of a portion of the isthmus of Darien –Lionel Gisborne
    August 1852
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 5 object: 9
    Map of the world on Mercator's Projection/official map of Cuba—Henry Houghton Beck
    1898
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Series 5: Assorted Survey Maps of the U.S.
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 1
    Map plan and profiles annexed to the report on a canal—W. Harrison, George Town
    March 1, 1827English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 2
    From Capt. Stansbury's survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio--Capt. Howard Stansbury
    May 27, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 3
    Map of Buffalo Harbor, NY—W. M. H. Pettes
    August 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 4
    Map of public surveys of California—Surveyor General office
    Sept. 28, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 5
    Map of Louisiana—William J. McCulloh
    Oct. 1, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 6
    Arkansas—George Milbourne
    Oct. 18, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 7
    Sketch of public surveys of Iowa—Warner Lewis
    Oct. 21, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 8
    State of Florida—John Westcott
    Oct. 31, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 9
    Sketch of public surveys of Michigan-Leander Chapman
    Nov. 8, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 10
    Isothermal chart, Atlantic & Pacific Ocean
    1853-1857
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 11
    Map of Nashville, TN, cholera epidemic of 1873-Ely McClellan, Asst. Surgeon
    1873
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 12
    Plate I & II, accompanying a project for improving the entrance into Charleston Bay Harbor, SC-L.A. Gillmore
    March 9, 1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 13
    Southwest, US, indicated the line of Wagon Road--?
    undated
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 6 object: 14
    Nebraska territory/Kansas Territory--?
    undated
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Series 6: Plat and Street Alteration Maps of Washington, D.C.—B.B. French and W. Forsyth
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 7 object: 1
    Plat of proposed carriage road and other improvements south of the President's house
    Oct. 3, 1854 English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 7 object: 2
    Plat & Dimensions of circle on Pennsylvania Avenue
    Nov. 18, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 7 object: 3
    Plat of triangular reservations on Pennsylvania Ave.
    Nov. 18, 1854
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 7 object: 4
    Plan submitted for the alteration of the streets and avenues around the Capitol
    Dec. 6, 1854
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Series 7: Transportation Maps
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 1
    Map of reconnaissance between Baltimore and Philadelphia—S. Bernard, William Tell Poussin
    May 4, 1826English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 2
    Map of the country between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans—Robert Mills, Whitney
    1853
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 3
    United States and Mexico, frontier map--?
    1845-1855
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 4
    No. 1-The principal transportation lines west of Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans—James B. Philp
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 5
    No. 2-The principal transportation lines extending west from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore--?
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 6
    No. 3-Competing transportation lines--?
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 7
    No. 4-Grand Trunk Railway--?
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 8
    No. 5-New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 9
    No. 6-Erie Railway
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 10
    No. 7-The Pennsylvania Railway System
    1878
  • Graphic Materials box: 1 folder: 8 object: 11
    No. 8-Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
    1878
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Series 8: WWII Prints
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 1 MS-5
    "A Mournful Melody" (Booby Traps)
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 2 MS-5
    Map--Northern Italy
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 3 MS-5
    "This is Ann" (Malaria)
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 4 MS-5
    Battleship "X"-Story of the USS South Dakota
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 5 MS-5
    Gas!
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 6 MS-5
    The Pacific and Far East
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 7 MS-5
    Battle Area on the Eastern Front
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 8 MS-5
    Know that Vehicle
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 9 MS-5
    JAP Aircraft
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 10 MS-5
    China's Army is a seasoned military team
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 11 MS-5
    Weapon's of the German infantry division
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 12 MS-5
    Typical German infantry division-17,000 officers and enlisted men
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 13 MS-5
    Service Ribbons
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 14 MS-5
    Aircraft Insignia
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 15 MS-5
    Progress of the war
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 16 MS-5
    Typical German infantry division—99 officers and 3059 enlisted men
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 17 MS-5
    Target Tokyo
    1943English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 18 MS-5
    Target Berlin
    1943English.
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Series 9: Assorted U.S. Government Documents
English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 20
    Abstract of passengers Document 143, p. 2-23
    Sept. 30, 1826 English.
  • Graphic Materials box: 2 folder: 21 MS-5
    Department of the Interior Report on Forest Trees of North America (16 maps)—C. S. Sargent
    1880English.
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