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Fortification--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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Military art and science--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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Fort Edward (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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Previous British Library cataloguing attributes a date of about 1755.
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Relief is shown by shading.
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Shows sounding depths in the Hudson River.
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Shows part of present-day Rogers Island.
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With a scale of 400 feet, 50 to an inch.
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The title appears centrally at the top of the map with lettered references below. A note reads that the yellow identifies "the Works that have been lately done".
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Includes three inset cross sections beneath the title of views through the fort.
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A photostatic reproduction of the map exists at the Newberry Library, Chicago listed in the Crown Collection of photographs of American maps by Archer Butler Hulbert with Call Number: folio Ayer 136 .H91 1909 ser. 2, v. 1, pl. 15 (PrCt).
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Titled "A drawn Plan of Fort Edward, by Harry Gordon and Geo. Bartman, Eng.r" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
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Titled 'A colored "plan of Fort Edward;" drawn about the end of 1755, by Harry Gordon and Geo. Bartman, engineers; on a scale of 50 feet to an inch: 3 f. 9 in. x 1 f. 6 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.
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