Coal fields US. / Hitchcock, Charles H.; United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897 / 1874

Coal fields US. Hitchcock, Charles H.; United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897, 1874

Coal fields US. / Hitchcock, Charles H.; United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897 / 1874

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Full Title: Map of the coal fields of the United States, compiled from state reports and data specially furnished by Prof. W.B. Rogers, E.T. Cox, A.H. Worthen, S.S. Lyon, Richard Owen, A.B. Roessler, R.P. Rothwell, Jas. MacFarlane, G.C. Swallow and W.C. Kerr, by Charles Hitchcock. To which are added the statistics of coal product for the years ending June 1st compiled from the statistics of industry, ninth census, 1870 by Francis A. Walker. (with) Map of the first and second anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. (Julius Bien, Lith., 1874)

Author: Hitchcock, Charles H.; United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Date: 1874

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Author: Hitchcock, Charles H.; United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Date: 1874

Short Title: Coal fields US.

Publisher: Washington: U.S.

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 53

Object Width cm: 76

Scale 1: 3,300,000

Note: Hand colored lithographed map. Shows formations beneath the coal measures, lower coal measures, upper coal measures, anthracite basins, Triassic coal and alluvium.

Reference: Marcou, 69.

Country: United States

State / Province: Pennsylvania

Subject: Mining ; Statistical

List No: 3566.009

Page No: XI-XII

Series No: 12

Engraver or Printer: Bien, Julius

Published In: Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government. Compiled under authority of Congress by Francis A. Walker, M.A., Superintendent of the 9th Census, professor of political economy and history, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. Julius Bien, Lith., 1874.

Publication Author: United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Publication Date: 1874

Publication Reference: Phillips, 1330; Phillips. Maps of America, p. 919; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 407.

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 3566.000

Publication Type: Statistical Atlas

Publication Maps: 38

Publication Height cm: 56

Publication Width cm: 43

Image No: 3566009

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