Description: An 1804 map of the United States depicting the early United States including the New England Colonies and the Northwest Territory. The map details the topography of the area quite well, paying close attention to the mountainous area of the Appalachian region. Map title reads "Map of the United States of North America For Volney's View of the climate and soil of the United States." Prime Meridian is Paris. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_VFM_0402-2_1804
Subjects: Maps--United States; Northwest Territory
Places: United States
 

Description: A color map of the United States engraved by John Cary from the latest authorities. The focal points of the map are the New England States and the relatively newly formed Northwest Territory. The map is finely detailed with topographic features including rivers, swamps, mountains, etc. Scales: British Statue 69 1/2 miles to a degree. Common French Leagues 25 to a degree. Notes: Relief shown pictorially, the Prime Meridian is Greenwich. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_VFM_0427-2_1806
Subjects: Maps--United States; Northwest Territory
Places: United States
 

Description: This photograph is a draft of a map for New Philadelphia (1938), which was created for potential use in The Ohio Guide, and is covered with pencil marks, arrows and notes. A the top right corner is a North arrow, beneath which says "Ohio Guide, Federal Writers' Project 1938". The map is approximately centered on the Tuscarawas County Courthouse on the Corner of High Avenue and Broadway Street. It depicts the Tuscarawas River and Tuscora Park, as well as the C & P Railroad tracks, the abandoned Ohio Canal, and the East Avenue and Fair Street Cemeteries. From 1935 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), through its Federal Writers' Project created The American Guide Series, which included forty-eight state guides, as well as supplemental guides for large cities, etc. The state guides are divided into three sections. In the first section are general essays about the state on things such as agriculture, culture, history, industry, religion, etc. The second section contains an overview of the various cities and towns around the state, as well as enumerating various points of interest. The last section is dedicated to various tours around the state. The tourist is taken from city to city, with turn by turn directions, and descriptions of what can be seen along the way. While much of the country has grown and changed since the guides were written, it is surprising how much remains, and sometimes more surprising what has been lost. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F14_005
Subjects: New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Maps; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map showing the Midwest and eastern coast of the United States of America, 1871, from "Handbook for Immigrants to the United States," prepared by the American Social Science Association. Labelled in Swedish "Karta öfver Förenta Staterna af Nord-Amerika," this map also shows finished, unfinished and project railroad lines in this part of the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04253
Subjects: Maps--United States; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage; Railroads; Transportation--1870-1880
Places: United States
 

Description: This image is a reproduction of a map of the United States created in 1820 by cartographer John Melish (1771-1822.) the map is included in C.V. Lasvoisne's "A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas" (Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1820). The original print was a color lithograph. Melish titled his map " United States of America compiled from the latest & best Authorities." The map scale is 120 miles to the inch. The map depicts the area bounded by New Brunswick, Canada, on the east; Missouri Territory on the west; the Great Lakes region (Canada and the U.S.) on the north; and Florida and present-day northern Mexico on the south. John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and apprenticed to a cotton maker. His job brought him to America at various times, and he settled permanently in Philadelphia in 1811. He wrote extensively of his travels in America during the early 19th century and became one of his adopted country's best cartographers during this period. His most famous map, published in 1816, depicted the United States from coast to coast. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06994
Subjects: Maps--United States; Historical map; Map drawing; Melish, John, 1771-1822
 

Description: Hand-colored map of the United States dated 1851, published in Hartford by Case, Tiffany & Co. The map includes the United States and territories, as well as Mexico and portions of Canada, South America and the Caribbean Islands. Insets also include an illustrated view of the "Capitol at Washington" and a portrait of George Washington. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0303_F
Subjects: Maps--United States; American frontier; Geography and Natural Resources; American Indians;
Places: United States
 

Description: This image is a reproduction of a military map created by cartographer John Melish and included in his "Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States Including the British Possessions and Florida" (published in 1813 and 1815). The visual components of Melish's atlas depict areas affected by the War of 1812, and the text vividly describes their geography. "Map of the Seat of War in North America" accompanies the atlas' first chapter, "Description of the Seat of War in North America." The map includes four of the Great Lakes in their entirety (only the tip of Lake Superior is represented); the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence; the Atlantic Ocean to the edge of Newfoundland and the tip of Delaware; "Upper" and "Lower Canada;" all or part of fifteen states (including Ohio); Michigan Territory; and the eastern edges of Illinois Territory and Indiana Territory. The map shows the mileage between cities, towns, and settlements. It also includes a table of population. Its dimensions are 21.5 x 15.5 inches. John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and apprenticed to a cotton maker. His job brought him to America at various times, and he settled permanently in Philadelphia in 1811. He wrote extensively of his travels in America during the early 19th century and became one of his adopted country's best cartographers during this period. His most famous map, published in 1816, depicted the United States from coast to coast. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06940
Subjects: Maps--United States; Historical map; Canada--Maps; Map drawing; Melish, John, 1771-1822
 

Description: Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the U.S. forces under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Surveyed and constructed under direction of Captain C. B. Comstock, U.S. Engineers. Drawn by Charles Spangenberg, Assistant Engineer, Head Quarters of the Department of the Tennessee. Note: Relief shown by hachures. Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively. Detailed map showing roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit." Scale [ca. 16,800]. (not "four inches to one mile"). The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict. The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_Siege_Vicksburg_Miss
Subjects: Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863--Maps. United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi); Warren County (Mississippi)
 

Description: Map showing the seat of war during the Civil War, 1861-65, from "The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant," 1885. The American Civil War was one of the greatest conflicts in American history. It began on April 12, 1861, with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The conflict resulted from tensions between the North and the South, principally over the issues of slavery and its expansion, state's rights, and regional economic competition. During 1864, Grant assumed command of all Union forces. To win the war, he believed that the Union military had to defeat the Confederate military and force it to surrender, so in the face of major losses, he repeatedly attacked, refusing to retreat like earlier Union armies had done. Grant's strategy was successful, and Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. Following the war, Ohio veterans Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and William McKinley all were elected to the presidency of the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04225
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maps--United States; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: United States
 

Description: Map of the Cincinnati, Ohio, waterfront in 1800 with a depiction of Walnut, Main, Sycamore and Broadway streets during this time period. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_004_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Map drawing; Maps--1800; Waterfronts--United States
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The pictured reproduction of a map illustrates charcoal furnaces once located in the Hanging Rock Iron Region of southeastern Ohio and the bordering region of Kentucky. While iron production originated in the northeastern corner of Ohio during the first half of the nineteenth century, southern Ohioans soon dominated the industry. The most productive area was centered near Hanging Rock, along the Ohio River. By 1860, southern Ohioans had established sixty-nine iron furnaces, producing more than 100,000 tons of iron annually, across Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Scioto, and Vinton Counties. The manufacturers sent much of the iron up and down the Ohio River to Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, allowing southern Ohioans to prosper. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01193
Subjects: Iron industry; Maps--Ohio; Hanging Rock Iron Region (Ohio)--History; Charcoal industry--United States
Places: Ross County (Ohio); Pike County (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio); Vinton County (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio);
 

Description: This map was prepared for the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876, the first World's Fair held in the United States. It shows principal war paths, villages, and American Indian trails, stockades and forts with date of erection, the sites of battles and skirmishes with their date, and the route of military expeditions with their date. It also shows the location of many of Ohio's significant prehistoric earthworks, and includes plans and views of several of them. Sections from the map are missing. The 36 sections of the map were digitally pieced together to produce this composite image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_VFM_0-620-2
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.); Ohio--Maps, Manuscript; American Indians--Maps; American Indians--Warfare; Archaeology--United States--History
Places: Ohio