Ohio History Journal

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DOCUMENTARY DATA

DOCUMENTARY DATA

 

By BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON

 

During recent months the Department of Documents (which

includes under its jurisdiction, state archives, manuscripts, maps,

posters, photostats and broadsides) has catalogued and arranged

in a vertical file about one hundred small and pamphlet-folder

maps. Some of the more important of these are:

ANDREWS REPORT FOR 1854, MAPS ACCOMPANY-

ING THE ISRAEL D. One showing railroads in U. S. in

operation and progress in the fifties; two of the St. Lawrence

region; one of the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico

--all of 1850's.

CAMP BUSNELL, Ohio, Plat of, 1898, 5 1/4" x 9 1/4".

CLEVELAND, Ohio, 1905, Street Map, 23 1/2" x 32 3/4".

CHARLESTON, S. C., 3 maps, n. d.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, 1870, 18" x 30".

CIVIL WAR MAPS of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Ten-

nessee and Virginia, prepared by the U. S. Coast Survey

Office in the 1860's.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, probably in 1820's, part of half section,

No. 12, belonging to Mr. Badger, photographic copy, 8" x 10".

FT. WAYNE BLOCKHOUSE No. 1, 1838, pictorial

4" x 6 1/2".

FT. WAYNE, HISTORIC SITES AT, 3 3/4" x 6 1/4".

ILLINOIS, Tourist's Pocket Map, 1834.

IOWA, Township Map, 1854.

MASON-DIXON LINE, Facsimile of, from   original in

Maryland Historical Society.

NEW YORK CITY, in 1890's, when Broadway Hotel was

new and Wanamaker's was just starting.

OHIO, County Development in, 8 small maps.

OHIO in War of 1812.

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