Connecticut Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Connecticut
  • Added Title Connecticut, at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, from a 1780 original in the Library of Congress at Washington.

Creator

  • Distributor: U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission
    Creator Type: Organization
    Creator Info: Issued by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Contributor

  • Printer: Geological Survey (U.S.)
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Reprinted 1937, by U.S. Geological Survey.

Date

  • Creation: 1937

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content 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
  • Physical Description: 1 map : some col. ; 46 x 52 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Connecticut -- Maps.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: New Jersey -- Maps.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: New York -- Maps.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Rhode Island -- Maps.
  • Keyword: Constitution
  • Keyword: boundaries
  • Keyword: mountains
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  • Keyword: islands
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Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Connecticut
  • Coverage Date: 1777

Collection

  • Name: Abilene Library Consortium
    Code: ABCM
  • Name: Jesse Wallace Williams Map Collection
    Code: JWWMC

Institution

  • Name: Hardin-Simmons University Library
    Code: HSUL

Resource Type

  • Map

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002084068
  • Accession or Local Control No: 8.A.19
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth493680

Note

  • Display Note: Original title: "Connecticut, and Parts adjacent. [by Bernard Romans, 1777] at Amsterdam by Covens and Mortier and Covens Junior."
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