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Map of the United States, the British Provinces, Mexico &c showing the routes of the U.S. Mail steam packets to California, and a plan of the gold region

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Title: Map of the United States, the British Provinces, Mexico &c showing the routes of the U.S. Mail steam packets to California, and a plan of the gold region
Creator: Atwood, John M., approximately 1818-, cartographer
Atwood, John M., approximately 1818-, engraver
Contributor: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893, publisher
J.H. Colton & Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Printed with sea routes indicated, later overland routes have been added in blue ink. The Gold Region has been hand colored. Submaps: Map of the Gold Region, California; From New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn, 17,000 miles, via Panama 5900 miles. Vignette: Pyramid Lake, Upper California, Discovered by Capt. Fremont 1844, 35 miles long, 1890 feet above the sea. The Pyramid of Rock in the lake rises 600 feet above the surface. MS note: 87485. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: United States & Mexico.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; hand col. ; 47 x 63 cm., sheet 56 x 66 cm.
Identifier: 87485
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/4036
Language: English
Subject: Voyages to the Pacific coast
Overland journeys to the Pacific
North America--Description and travel--Maps
United States--Maps
California--Maps
Time Period: 1849
Place: North America
W 132°
W 52°/N 58°
N 5°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Plummer Collection, purchased from George D. Smith Book Company, Dec. 8, 1926. Item 22

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