/ Reconnoissance Map of the United States, Distribution of Geologic System 1893

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Title: Reconnoissance Map of the United States, Distribution of Geologic System 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.), creator
Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: Not famous for the map but for the owner who added information to it. Owned and noted by Dr. Frederick Jackson Turner of Harvard, deviser of "Manifest Destiny" and mentor of Ray Alan Billington. In two parts, mounted on cardboard, folded. Inside of folder is mounted a map of Boston and Boston Harbor , Edition of 1903, rerprinted 1980. Further is a rotogravure aerial photograph of Boston from the Boston Herald, November 21, 1921. MS notes on Ice Age incursions. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes on Boston Harbor map: Frederick J. Turner, Widener 415, Harvard.
Extent: 1 map ; printed col. ; 47 x 65 cm., sheet 47 x 65 cm.
Identifier: 125500
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/1658
Language: English
Time Period: 1893
Place: North America
United States
W 125°
W 70°/N 50°
N 25°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library

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