About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts
+ o - ^
previous next

Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

  • Het nievwe licht der zeevaert
  • Atlas eclipticalis 1950.0
  • Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada
  • A chart of Delaware Bay and River
  • Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio : quam ex magna universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographie ac ceterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitie ac familiaritatis memoriam Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A0. M.D. LXXXVII.
  • Arabia.
  • Florida.
  • A map of the icy sea in which the several communications with the land waters and other new discoveries are exhibited
  • Zeichenerklärung
  • Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio
  • America Septentrionalis.
  • A chart of the world : exhibiting the prevailing religion and population of the present empires, kingdoms and states : also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842.
  • Carta dell' Egitto, Sudan, Mar Rosso, Assab, Massaua, Abissinia ecc.
  • Map of lots & buildings as shewn by the dotted lines and figures to be sold at auction by James Bleecker & Sons
  • New York province. Map of the country of the VI nations proper with part of the adjacent colonies.
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Maps of North America

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Countries

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
United States (except New York)

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
States

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Massachusetts

View as book

This Item

Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts
Names
United States Coast Survey (Publisher)
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 (Creator)
Whiting, Henry L. (Creator)
Eakin, C. M. (Creator)
Boschke, A. (Draftsman)
Mechlin, J. R. P. (Draftsman)
Dankworth, Frederick, approximately 1804- (Engraver)
Yaeger, E. (Engraver)
Throop, John Peter Van Ness, 1794-approximately 1861 (Engraver)
Young, J. (Engraver)
Ackerman's (Firm) (Lithographer)
Collection

Maps of North America

Countries

United States (except New York)

States

Massachusetts

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1854
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: U. S. Coast Survey Office
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 16-789
Topics
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Muskeget Channel
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Sound (Mass.)
Marthas Vineyard (Mass.)s Vineyard (Mass.)
Muskeget Island (Mass.)
Muskeget Channel (Mass.)
Genres
Maps
Nautical charts
Notes
Statement of responsibility: From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States.
Content: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Content: Also cover part of Nantucket Sound.
Content: Text includes: sailing directions, tide table; note on soundings; list of abbreviations.
Content: Includes "View of Holmes' Hole Harbor and View of north entrance to Muskeget Channel" at bottom edge, and "Telescopic view of Cape Poge Lt."
Content: "A no. 13."
Statement of responsibility: "Triangulation by C.M. Eakin, assistant U.S.C.S.; topography by H.L. Whiting, assistant; hydrography by the parties under the command of Lieuts. G.S. Blake, C.H. Davis and C.H. McBlair, U.S. Navy assistants U.S.C.S."
Statement of responsibility: "Redd. drng. by A. Boschke and J.R.P. Mechlin" -- lower left.
Statement of responsibility: "Engd. by F. Dankworth, E. Yaeger, J.V.N. Throop & J. Young."-- lower right.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map ; 70 x 51 cm on sheet 74 x 56 cm
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 427897246
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21092167
Other local Identifier: US093.3.06
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2f649610-738f-0134-dbc2-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1854: Issued
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 29, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1854). Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/43d4ad10-738f-0134-591b-00505686a51c | title= (cartographic) Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts, (1854) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=January 29, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Preliminary chart of Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts