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MAP #: 373T5

CARTOGRAPHER : TYSON, PHILIP T.

DATE: 1873

SHORT TITLE : MAP OF MARYLAND AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

REMAINING TITLE & ID : COLORED TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS BY PHILIP T. TYSON. (LEFT SIDE, ABOVE CENTER SURROUNDED BY CURLED LINES). "14" (LEFT TOP MARGIN). "15" (RIGHT TOP MARGIN). "SECTION FROM NEAR WASHINGTON S. 25o E. TO THE MOUTH OF ST. MARY'S RIVER" (BELOW TITLE). "SECTION FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE S. 2 1/2o E. ALONG THE EASTERN SHORE TO POCOMOKE BAY." (BELOW PRIOR ENTRY). "SECTION FROM NEAR THE N.W. CORNER OF MARYLAND DUE EAST TO HANCOCK, AND FROM THENCE S. 65 E. TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AT THE MOUTH OF THE PATAPSCO RIVER." (BELOW PRIOR ENTRY). TABLE ENTITLED "EXPLANATION OF COLORS" WITH COLOR AND SYMBOL CODES TO 24 GEOLOGICAL TYPE FORMATIONS WITH PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK NAMES, WHERE THEY ARE AVAILABLE (TOP RIGHT SIDE IN BLANK DELAWARE AREA). NO SCALE IS SHOWN. ON THE REVERSE SIDES ARE PAGES 13 AND 16 ENTITLED "GEOLOGY" AND "ZOOLOGY" RESPECTIVELY. LONGITUDE WEST AND EAST FROM WASHINGTON (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : R1873 (1859)
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : BALTIMORE
PUBLISHER : STEDMAN, BROWN & LYON
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 37.4 X 61.8 CM.
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 45.0 X 72.0 CM. OM. (OPEN BOOK)
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 633,600 (SCALE IS FROM OTHER MAPS IN THE ATLAS)
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : MSA SC1399-672(15)
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : BB023-HFNQ*
REGION CATEGORY : MAP ON WHICH THE MD/CHESAPEAKE AREA IS ONE MAIN FOCUS (1)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : CITY/COUNTY ATLAS (6)
: GEOLOGICAL MAP (9)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : N IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP.
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE.
CARTOUCHE : CURLED LINES (19)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : WASHINGTON (5)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 359T5, 373MA.01-373MA.13
BEST INFO SOURCE : MATHEWS IS THE BEST FOUND ON TYSON.
DESCRIPTION : THIS GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS MAP OF MARYLAND IS BASED, IN ITS GEOLOGICAL DATA, ON THE PHILIP TYSON MAP OF 1859 ENTITLED "GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE FIRST REPORT OF PHILIP T. TYSON AGRICULTURAL-CHEMIST OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND 1859". THE DATA IS SUPERIMPOSED ON A DIFFERENT BASE MAP OF MARYLAND, WITH A DIFFERENT SCALE AND WITH CONSIDERABLY ENHANCED DETAIL OF NAMES, RAILROADS, ETC. THE THREE GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS SHOWN IN THE LOWER LEFT ARE SIMILAR. THE 1859 MAP IS DESCRIBED BY MATHEWS AS THE FIRST DETAILED GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE ENTIRE STATE. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, SEE MAP # 359T5,

THIS 1873 MAP APPEARS ON PAGES 14 AND 15 OF MARTENET, WALLING & GRAY'S NEW TOPOGRAPHICAL ATLAS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, BALTIMORE: STEDMAN, BROWN & LYON, 1873. IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ESSAY ON "GEOLOGY", WHICH APPEARS ON PAGES 12, 13, AND 16. PAGE 13, COVERING GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS 13 THROUGH 21 IS ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF PAGE 14. THE REVERSE SIDE OF PAGE 15 CONTAINS GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS 23 AND 24 AND THE BEGINNING OF AN ESSAY ON ZOOLOGY. THE GEOLOGY ESSAY IS LISTED AS BEING "PRINCIPALLY FROM REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS OF PHILIP T. TYSON, ESQ. LATE STATE AGRICULTURAL CHEMIST."

DATA IS FROM MATHEWS, PAPENFUSE AND COALE, AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE 1873 ATLAS IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.

EDITION & STATE INFO : WRITER KNOWS OF TWO EDITIONS OF THIS MAP AND THERE ARE PROBABLY OTHERS.

1ST ED. - (1859) - THIS MAP IS ENTITLED "GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE FIRST REPORT OF PHILIP T. TYSON AGRICULTURAL-CHEMIST OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND 1859". SEE MAP # 359T5.

ANOTHER ED. - 1873) - THIS IS THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN. THE BASIC DATA HAS BEEN SUPERIMPOSED ON A DIFFERENT BASE MAP. THIS EDITION HAS A HEADING "EXPLANATION OF COLORS" OVER THE COLOR KEYS IN THE BLANK DELAWARE AREA. THE SCALE OF MILES BELOW THE COLOR KEYS HAS BEEN DELETED.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A GOOD CLEAN COLORED COPY OF THIS MAP WITH A MINOR IMPERFECTION IN THE BOTTOM MARGIN, NOT AFFECTING THE DATA. IT IS BOUND INTO THE NEW TOPOGRAPHICAL ATLAS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND" BY MARTENET, WALLING AND GRAY, PUBLISHED BY STEDMAN, BROWN & LYON IN BALTIMORE, 1873. THE ATLAS IS STRENGTHENED AT THE SPINE AND AT THE CORNERS OF THE COVERS. IT HAS AN ACQ. # OF BB023-HFNQ* AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC 1399-672(15). THE COLLECTION ALSO HAS AN 80% OF FULL SIZE PHOTOREPRODUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COPY IN BLACK AND WHITE.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, NEW YORK: BURT FRANKLIN, AN UNDATED REPRINT OF A 1901 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, 398 (ATLAS LISTED ONLY); PHILLIPS PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD, A 1971 REPRINT OF A 1909 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, # 1280 (ATLAS LISTED ONLY); MATHEWS, EDWARD B., "THE MAPS AND MAPMAKERS OF MARYLAND", IN MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION VOL. II, PART IIIb, BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1898, 462-463; MATHEWS, EDWARD B., "BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF MARYLAND", IN MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION V. I, PART IV, BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1897, 380-381; PAPENFUSE, EDWARD C. & JOSEPH M. COALE, III, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND, 1608-1908, BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1982, 81.

February 23, 1993


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