Warner & Hanna's Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore: Respectively dedicated to the Mayor, City Council & Citizens thereof, by the Proprietors, 1801
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1801
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Philadelphia: Warner & Hanna
Abstract
1 map; 38 x 73 cm. Note: A previous owner of this map penciled in Charles Street and Calvert Street extending them to the north.
Description
Description from Mapping Maryland: "Charles P. Varle, a French expatriated from Santo Domingo, settled in Maryland in 1798. Trained as an engineer, he contracted to prepare this earl view of Baltimore for local publishers Warner & Hanna."
Description from "Maryland from the Willard Hackerman Map Collection", George Peabody Library Exhibit ) Oct. 9, 2018 - March 16, 2019: "This early commercial map zooms in on A.P. Folie's 1792 Inner Harbor map and focuses on the city proper. It adds considerable detail to the north and west, showing the estates and gardens of outlying landowners. Meant to promote commerce, the map includes a vignette of a "View of the Market Space Canal," and the key identifies twenty-eight important sites. An earlier owner of the map added in faint pencil the eventual extension of Charles Street heading north and Calvert Street.
Description from "Maryland from the Willard Hackerman Map Collection", George Peabody Library Exhibit ) Oct. 9, 2018 - March 16, 2019: "This early commercial map zooms in on A.P. Folie's 1792 Inner Harbor map and focuses on the city proper. It adds considerable detail to the north and west, showing the estates and gardens of outlying landowners. Meant to promote commerce, the map includes a vignette of a "View of the Market Space Canal," and the key identifies twenty-eight important sites. An earlier owner of the map added in faint pencil the eventual extension of Charles Street heading north and Calvert Street.
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Baltimore--Maps