Map of the Southern Section of the United States, A

Sub-Title

Including the Floridas & Bahama Islands Shewing (sic) the Seat of War, In that Department

Subject

Southeastern United States, Louisiana, west to Florida; Atlantic seaboard from Milford, Maryland, to Florida. From Southern Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Bahama Islands. Includes area and population table for Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Caroline, Georgia, Mississippi and Missouri Territories, Louisiana, West and East Florida, Bahama Islands.

Date

1814 Nov 11 (historical)

Mapmaker

Melish, John, delineator; H[enry] S[chenk] Tanner, engraver

Publisher

[Melish, John]

Place of Publication

[Philadelphia]

Accession Number

1976.093.006.06

Condition

Fair. Tears along right fold, top center. Foxed. Outline color.

Curatorial Notes

Original stored in LHC vault. All maps are photocopied and stored c6d4.

Market Value

1976 Apr: whole volume purchased from Walter Reuben & Co., Austin, Texas: $1,350.00

Notes

"From an Original Drawing by a British Engineer." Plate 5 from Melish's 1815 "A Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States; including the British Possessions & Florida."

Media Type

bound in book

Size

16 x 20

Storage

c06d04/vault