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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with some wash color. Scale: 20 chains = 1 inch. In 1765, Azariah Dunham was appointed surveyor of the line between the two counties, which, with a few deviations, followed the route of the King's Highway. The petition requesting the survey states: "The line of the old road is very dubious, by reason of persons altering the road." AM 13937.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with some wash color. Scale: 80 chains = 1 inch = 1 mile. AM 17543.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with some wash color. Scale: 10 chains = 1 inch.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper. Scale: 2 miles = 1 inch. "To The Honb.le Major General [Nathanael] Greene This Map is presented By his obed.t Friend Jn.o Clark, Jun.r. Morristown, Feb.y 11th 1777." John Clark was an aide to General Greene.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with some wash color and colored compass rose, backed on linen. Scale: 20 chains = 1 inch. AM 19173.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper. Scale: 4 chains = 1 inch.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper. Scale: 4 chains = 1 inch. Map of land in Burlington County, in an area just north of Friendship, a subsection of Southampton Township. Perhaps related to Black Family.

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Engraved map, with manuscript annotations detailing the provenance of the map. "Map of Fort Gordon, near Lerida, Spain, illustrative of Suchet's campaign in the Peninsular War, April 1810" [on card attached to map]. Presented to Princeton by Bernhard K. Schaefer, Class of 1920. AM 17205.

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Mechanically produced map, with manuscript notations. "Ballon camp. June 14th 1862. The red lines represent some of the most important earthworks seen this morning, [?] are located as near as possible, as are also the camps in black ink. As soon as I can get an observation from the Mechanicsville balloon I can make many additions to the map. T. S. C. Lowe." Locations of two balloons shown in red. AM 17071.

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Manuscript map (true copy), pen-and-ink on paper, with some wash color. Scale: 100 chains = 1 inch. Shows area between Staten Island on the east, the Raritan River on the south, the Passaic River on the north, and the north branch of the Passaic River on the east. Elizabeth Town and Newark Bay are noted. A key identifies a dozen other features of the map. On verso, a lengthy note explains the legal purpose of this map made by William Parsons and Edward Scull in a case (James Penn vs. John Chambers) before the Supreme Court, Somerset, 17 August 1741.

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Set of 8 18th-century anonymous manuscript maps of villages and towns around Paris, pen-and-ink on paper, with wash color. Place names include Argenteuil, Boulogne, Chambly, Meudon, and Versailles. Some of the maps bear section numbers on the verso, suggesting they were created as parts of a larger map. AM 19651.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with wash color. Shows coast of Tuscany, Italy, opposite the islands of Gorgona, Elba, and Giglio.

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Photo-mechanically reproduced map, with manuscript annotations. "Compiled from Admiralty Charts . . . Hartmann's Karte . . . Map of the American Expedition of 1899-1900, Preliminary Map by Robert Garrett...D.H.P. Railway Map . . . ." "Reproduced, by the photo-metal process, at the Survey Dept. Egypt 1915." Possibly used by British General Edmund Allenby during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. [File regarding this map is located in the University Archives, Faculty Records, under "Butler, Howard Crosby."] HM 1995-11.

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Pictorial map of the Mino region (Gifu prefecture of Japan). Copied in Tempo 4 (1833) from Bikozuseki. Owned by Tomita, Sadanori(?).

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on paper, with wash color. Shows the Madeira River, from its mouth at the Amazon to the falls at San Antonio, approximately 700 miles. "This map was made from surveys by Robert H. Hepburn & George M. Keasbey, while engaged in towing supplies from Pará to San Antonio, for P. & T. Collins, contractors for the construction of the Madeira-Mamoree Railway, 1878."

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink, mounted on linen. Shows the eastern half of the boundary known as the Mason-Dixon Line. Scale: 4 miles = 1 inch. Signed in manuscript, "Chas: Mason" and "Jere: Dixon." [For more information on the map and its provenance, see Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XVI, pp. 97-99, and Vol. XXV, pp. 153-155.]

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Manuscript map: Dutch map of Crete and surrounding islands, handcolored in outline, sheet 34.5 x 43 cm.

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Manuscript map: Italian map of part of Corfu, ca. 1730, handcolored, 49 x 70 cm.

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Manuscript map, pen-and-ink on silked linen, handcolored. Early map of the Yosemite (Valley) Lumber Company lands immediately south of Yosemite Valley and east of the Merced River, depicting the critical link between the Yosemite Valley Railroad and rail lines constructed by the company to bring timber from the company lands to a yet to be constructed mill in Merced, California. Dated March 15, 1911, the map is an important early snapshot of the final chapter of the logging industry within Yosemite National Park lands and includes the longest incline railway ever built, rising 3100 feet above the Merced River.

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Manuscript map: pen-and-ink map by Rev. Edward Livermore, on sheet with key (112 named locations)

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Manuscript map: folding hand colored map which shows the locations of "trapiches" (mills used to crush rock) and lists their names, and the names of the owners of the stone quarries.

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Folding table which lists 37 mines with the names of their 21 owners as well as other statistics about the silver mines in Caylloma area of Peru.

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Letters and documents concerning silver mining in Caylloma.

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Scope and Contents

This is an open collection of manuscript maps as well as printed maps with significant manuscript annotations. Included are the original eastern section of the Mason-Dixon Line map drawn by Charles Dixon and Jeremiah Dixon, signed by both; several maps of parts of New Jersey dating from before the American Revolution; a set of eight 18th-century maps of areas around Paris; an 1862 Civil War map of the area around Richmond with annotations by Union aeronaut T. S. C. Lowe describing Confederate earthworks as seen from balloons; an 1852 Dutch map of Crete and surrounding islands; an Italian map (ca. 1730) of part of Corfu; a topographical map of the Latakia area of Syria, with manuscript annotations by General Edmund Allenby; and a mid-19th century keyed map of the island of St. Croix in the Caribbean.

Arrangement

Organized by manuscript map number.

Acquisition:

Source of original acquisition unclear (AM13937,17071, 17205, 17543, 18045, 19173, 19651, HM1995-11).

Additions of Dutch map of Crete and Italian map of Corfu are a gift of the Program of Hellenic Studies in 2009 (AM2009-124, 2009-125).

Addition of map of "Lands of Yosemite Valley Lumber Company" is a gift of Barry Lawrence Ruderman in 2009 (AM2010-14).

Addition of map of "Island of St. Croix" was transferred from the Graphic Arts Collection in 2012 (AM2012-46).

Purchase, 2018 (AM 2018-114).

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by John Delaney in March 2009. Finding aid written by John Delaney in March 2009.

In 2022, restrictions on materials were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.

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Manuscript Maps Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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