<i>Map of the COUNTRY Contiguous to the CHESAPEAKE & DELAWARE CANAL</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1824
notes: label: Description
content: While suggestions of a canal between Philadelphia and Baltimore originated in the 17th century, and efforts to dig this canal date from shortly after the Revolution, it was the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal that made the waterway a reality. Henry Schenck Tanner (1786-1858), an important early American cartographer, produced this map showing the proposed route of the canal for the <i>Fifth General Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company</i> (Philadelphia, 1824). The text at bottom center reads “Longitude East from Washington.” The signature at bottom right reads “Drawn & Engrav’d by H. S. Tanner.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter W. Ristow, <i>American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century</i> (Detroit, 1985), pp. 191-206.
label: Description
content: James Walker, “Henry S. Tanner and Cartographic Expression of American Expansion in the 1820s,” <i>Oregon Historical Quarterly</i> 111 (2010): 444-461.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317825
label: catalog number
content: 317825
label: accession number
content: 231759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 11 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in frame: 11 7/8 in x 13 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 30.1625 cm x 35.2425 cm x 2.8575 cm