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General diagram : [western Philadelphia city and adjacent portions of Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania].

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General diagram : [western Philadelphia city and adjacent portions of Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania].

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Topographic map showing proposed and existing Civil-War batteries and defensive positions immediately west of Philadelphia.
Relief shown by contours and hachures.
Title from southern sheet.
Partial tracing of the 1863 ms. topographic map showing 1st- and 2nd-class fortifications at Philadelphia (CW 358.22).
Oriented with north to the right.
Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), and watercolors.
Drawn in 2 segments (sheets): [Northern] -- [Southern].
"No. 2866" [north sheet] and "No. 2867" [south sheet] (former Coast Survey numbers) handwritten in ink at lower right corner of each sheet; annotated adhesive labels affixed to sheets to the right of both handwritten numbers: 854W 1863?
Sheets imperfect: Fold-lined.
LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 358.2
Accompanied by 11 ms. local-area maps on tracing linen showing additional details: [1. Fairmount Park vicinity, Philadelphia] -- [2. Paschall subdivision, Philadelphia] (2 copies) -- [3. Haddington subdivision, Haverford Road, Philadelphia] -- [4. Haddington subdivision, Hunter's Lane, Philadelphia] (2 copies) -- [5. West Philadelphia] (signed "R.M. Bache" in pencil at lower left corner) -- [6. Darby, Delaware County] (2 copies) -- [7. Upper Darby, Delaware County] (2 copies).
Both principal sheets include pen-and-ink bar "Scale of miles".
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Date

01/01/1863
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Contributors

United States Coast Survey.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.
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Library of Congress
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