FORT BEDFORD

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FORT BEDFORD
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Item Information

Title:
FORT BEDFORD
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[1758–1763]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Bedford (Bedford, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Bedford (county) > Bedford
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 47 x 58 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
[Place of production not identified] : [Producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:480
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999746
Notes:
Date attributed based on location shown (Fort Bedford was constructed in 1758).
Relief shown by shading.
Shows title at upper centre.
Shows scale bar at upper left (40 feet to an inch).
Shows a sketched profile through the fort (marked "a-b" on the map) at upper left.
Shows a lettered key at upper left identifying officers' apartments, the guard house, the storehouses, barracks and hopital.
Compare maps by the same hand - see Add Ms 57,714.6 / Add Ms 57,714.7 / Add Ms 57,714.8 / Add Ms 57,714.9 / Add Ms 57,714.10 / Add Ms 57,714.11.
Copy at Add Ms 57,714.10. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "10" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 65" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/24" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "3". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/24". Paper watermark shows a shield surmounted by a fleur de lys with "LVG" beneath.
Notes (date):
9999
This date is inferred.