Item 25: A Map by Samuel Lewis, 1795, of the State of Pennsylvania: reduced with permission from Reading Howell's map, (Removed to Grey Box #4), [1792]
Item — Box: 15, Folder: 80
Dates
- Created: [1792]
Creator
- Lewis, Samuel, 1754-1822 (Person)
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Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Map
General Condition:
Fair, map is very discolored and missing a section at the bottom-left of the map. The edges are also very worn along edges. It is dirtier along these edges too, and one crease in particular seems to have gathered more significant browning than the others (right of center, vertical). There are a few small creases along the edges, but nothing major that puts the document at risk for handling.
Measurements:
21 in. x 13 ½ in.
Description:
The following item depicts a hand-drawn map of Pennsylvania by Samuel Lewis, created in 1795 and reduced with permission, after the Reading Howell map. The map is intricately captured, containing the neighboring borderstates (New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey) and Lake Erie, as well as numerous physical landscape markers, such as lakes, rivers, creeks, and mountains are all marked and labeled. The counties have less of a specified divide, seemingly flowing from one into another. Only a few towns, presumably the larger ones at the time, are listed here. There are the Appalachian and Allegheny mountains drawn in as well. The bottom of the map mentions that it was engraved for Carey’s American Edition of Gunthrie’s Geography improved.
Geographicus’ historical sketch accompanying their digitized Lewis map mentions that this was one of the “first maps to clearly delineate Pennsylvania’s country structure, forming a basis for civil administration within the state … Many of Pennsylvania’s towns, cities, creeks … and mineral deposits appeared for the first time on Howell’s map” (Geographicus).
Location:
Pennsylvania
Creator
- Lewis, Samuel, 1754-1822 (Person)
- Howell, Reading, 1743-1827 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu