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Texas

Description: Political map of the 254 counties of Texas, showing the boundary lines and identifying each county. The map also includes the counties/parishes of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico that are adjacent to Texas counties. Scale [ca. 1:1,710,720] (27 miles to the inch).
Date: [..1931]

General Highway Map Collin County, Texas

Description: Highway map of Collin County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools and churches), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil or gas wells, and state roadside parks. Map includes twelve inset maps - Weston, Melissa, Valdasta, Allen, Altoga, Climax, Culeoka, Copeville, Lavon, Inset No. 1, Renner, and Josephine - and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca… more
Date: 1939
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.

Combat near the "Mission Concepcion," by Colonel James Bowie's Battalion, October 28, 1835.

Description: Map of combat at the Battle of Concepción during the Texas Revolution, showing lines of assault by Mexican infantry, cannon, and dragoons, and lines held by Captain Fannin's and Captain Coleman's companies. The battlefield is surrounded by wooded terrain and lies next to the San Antonio River. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of a family making a sandcastle on a beach on the South Coast of England.
Date: 1938?

"Fannin's Fight," March 19, 1836.

Description: Map of Fannin's Fight, showing the Texas Infantry, breastworks, and lines of assault by Mexican Dragoons and Infantry. Lines of march used by Colonel Fannin and General Urrea are also shown. Note: "[shows] rise of six feet, behind which Mexican Artillery fired, on the 20th." There are also notes on the type of cannons used. Distances to various cities are given. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of boats docked at harbor in the town of Dover, England.
Date: 1938?

General Highway Map Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Description: Highway map of Guadalupe, New Mexico, showing boundaries, highways and roads (mileage indicated), railroads, towns, land grants, bodies of water, and buildings, such as schools, churches, and hospitals. The map includes a legend and a diagram of the section within New Mexico. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: New Mexico State Highway Department

General Highway Map San Miguel County, New Mexico

Description: Highway map of San Miguel County, New Mexico, showing boundaries, highways and roads (mileage indicated), railroads, towns, land grants, bodies of water, and buildings, such as schools, churches, and hospitals. The map includes a legend (bottom-center) and a diagram of the section within New Mexico. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: New Mexico State Highway Department

Map of the Battlefield of San Jacinto

Description: Map of the Texan and Mexican Armies at the commencement of the Battle of San Jacinto, showing the positions of the armies and features of the terrain between Buffalo Bayou and San Jacinto Bay. Distances to various cities are given. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of families picking hops to make beer in Kent County, England.
Date: 1938?

Maryland

Description: Topographic map of Maryland and the surrounding area, showing counties, towns, villages, roads, and bodies of water. There is an inset map included in the lower-left corner titled "New Map of the Province of Maryland in North America." The inset is a facsimile of a Maryland map published in February 1780. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:633,600] (10 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Griffith, Dennis

Massachusetts (eastern part, i.e., the District of Maine)

Description: Map of Massachusetts and Maine and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, Canadian provinces, bodies of water, and other geologic features. The map includes three inset maps in the lower-left corner showing the district of Maine, with markings for geographic features as well as towns. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,534,400] (40 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Carleton, Osgood; Doolittle, Amos; Mitchell, John & Jay, John

Massachusetts (without the District of Maine)

Description: Map of Massachusetts at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing roads, counties, cities, villages, townships, water bodies, and other geographic features. The map includes three inset maps in the lower-left corner. The leftmost map puts Massachusetts within the scope of New England, the middle map shows the eastern portion of Massachusetts in greater detail than the main map, and the map on the right outlines the plan of Boston. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:760,320] … more
Date: 1938
Creator: Green, John; De Coasta, I.; Romans, Bernard & Bradley, Abraham, Jr.

New-York

Description: Map of New York at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, bodies or water, and other geographic features. These is an inset map of a reduced reprint of a French edition of the Lewis Evans map in the lower-left corner. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,393,920] (22 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Faden, William; Sauthier, Claude Joseph; Ratzer, B. & Evans, Lewis

North Carolina (eastern part, without Tennessee)

Description: Map of North and South Carolina and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, mountain ranges, swamps, boundary lines, and water bodies. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (approximately 15 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Mouzon, Henry

North Carolina (western part, i.e., Tennessee)

Description: Map of Tennessee and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, roads, American-Indian reservations, rivers, creeks, and mountain ranges, with explanatory notes on road conditions. Map includes a legend in the lower-left corner and an inset map, titled "A Map of the United States of America," at the top of the map, below the title. The inset map designates Tennessee (marked as North Carolina) within the larger scope of the United States at the time.… more
Date: 1938
Creator: Smith, D.

Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations

Description: Map of Narragansett Bay at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing islands, towns, inlets, coves, rivers, and plantations. The map includes a table of "References to the Batteries" and "A List of the Principal Farms in Rhode Island." The map also includes an inset map of Rhode Island in its entirety, showing counties and water bodies. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:82,368] (approximately 1.3 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Blaskowitz, Charles & Faden, William
Location: None

Seige of the Alamo

Description: Map of the zone fire between Mexican batteries and the Alamo, showing the San Antonio River, various locations of attach, streets, trees, and places where bodies were burned. Distances to various cities are given. Some twentieth century features of the city are superimposed. No scale indicated.
Date: 1938?

The Siege of Bexar

Description: Map of the line of attack by Texans against the Mexican forces occupying Bexar, showing the layout of San Antonio de Bexar, including roads, major buildings, rivers, and creeks. The distances to various locations are given. Some twentieth century streets of San Antonio are superimposed. No scale indicated.
Date: 1938?

Texas: The Lone Star State

Description: Pictorial and historical map of Texas, with complementary notes and text on Exploration 1519-1685, Missions and Spanish 1682-1819, Colonization, Rumbles of Revolt, The Republic, Statehood 1845, and Secession. Map shows flags of six nations over Texas, counties and regions by terrain and vegetation type, missions, roads, the size and population, and categories of industry and agriculture by location. Scale [ca. 1:3,168,000] (approximately 50 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Aitchison, R. T.

The United States of America

Description: Map of the United States at the time of the Treaty of Paris, showing land south of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi River. The map includes four inset maps of "Claims and cessions of western lands, 1776-1802," illustrating the initial claim and those lands ceded by the British administration. The four maps show cessions of Connecticut and South Carolina, New York, Virgina and Georgia, and Massachusetts and North Carolina. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1938
Creator: Buell, Abel

The United States of America

Description: Map of the United States showing the boundaries fixed in 1782, five years before the ratification of the constitution, from a contemporary copy of Benjamin Franklin's red-line map identified in Spain by the Library of Congress at Washington. Includes three insets: Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Monsieur de Vergennes, Letter from El Conde de Aranda to El Conde de Floridablanca, and Nouvelle carte de la Baye d'Hudson (New Map of the Hudson Bay). Scale information indeterminable.
Date: 1938
Creator: Martin, Lawrence

Connecticut

Description: Reproduction of a map originally published in 1777 of Connecticut and the surrounding area, including parts of Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey. The map includes towns, counties, bodies of water, and other geological features, with relief shown pictorially. Scale 1:760,320
Date: 1937
Creator: U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission
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