[Map showing Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne and Fort Mercer]

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[Map showing Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne and Fort Mercer]
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Title:
[Map showing Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne and Fort Mercer]
Description:
Shows the locations of Forts Du Quesne, Pitt and Mercer in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[ca. 1761]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Pennsylvania--Fort Pitt--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Fort Pitt--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Pitt (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Allegheny (county) > Pittsburgh
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 35 x 27 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 1:4,800
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999746
Notes:
Date suggested as Fort Pitt is shown with a solid line (sugegsting its completion?) whilst Forts Du Quesne and Mercer are shown with dotted lines.
Relief is shon by shading.
North is oriented to the left of the map and is indicated by a decorative compass arrow.
Names "ALLEGHENY OR OHIO RIVER" and "MONONGEHELA RIVER".
Shows stone quarries, a lime house and a coal pitt within the wider environs. "
Shows scale bar at lower right, "Scale 400 FEET to one Inch".
Copy at Add Ms 57,714.13. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "13" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 15" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/63" at upper left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "40". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/63". Paper watermark shows a horn within a shield with "LVG" beneath.
Notes (date):
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