survey – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:18:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg survey – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Original Salt Lake Plat Map Found https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/04/original-salt-lake-plat-map-found/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:18:16 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1462 More]]> “A New York dealer in antique maps and rare books claims to have found the first map of Salt Lake City,” writes Trent Toone of the Deseret News. “Paul Cohen, of Cohen and Taliaferro, recently obtained the original sheepskin plat map of the ‘Great City of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake’ and plans to have it on display at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs April 7-10.” The 21½×11¼-inch sheepskin map was produced during an 1847 survey. [WMS]

]]> 1462 Map of Colonial New Jersey Rediscovered https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/map-of-colonial-new-jersey-rediscovered/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:30:37 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=87 More]]> colonial-nj

A 1769 map of New Jersey by the famed colonial surveyor Bernard Ratzer, commissioned to settle a longstanding border dispute between New Jersey and New York, has been uncovered by a Harvard University librarian. The map, criss-crossed by competing and alternate boundary lines, has been digitized and is available to view online as part of Harvard’s Colonial North American project.

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