Manuscript Maps Collection

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton) (1826-1885)

A graduate of Princeton (Class of 1886), McClellan was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1895-1903), mayor of New York (1903-1909), and professor of economic history at Princeton (1912-1931). A renowned scholar of Venice, he authored a number of historical books about Italy.

This is an open collection of manuscript maps as well as printed maps with significant manuscript annotations. Included are the original eastern section of the Mason-Dixon Line map drawn by Charles Dixon and Jeremiah Dixon, signed by both; several maps of parts of New Jersey dating from before the American Revolution; a set of eight 18th-century maps of areas around Paris; an 1862 Civil War map of the area around Richmond with annotations by Union aeronaut T. S. C. Lowe describing Confederate earthworks as seen from balloons; an 1852 Dutch map of Crete and surrounding islands; an Italian map (ca. 1730) of part of Corfu; a topographical map of the Latakia area of Syria, with manuscript annotations by General Edmund Allenby; and a mid-19th century keyed map of the island of St. Croix in the Caribbean.

Organized by manuscript map number.

Source of original acquisition unclear (AM13937,17071, 17205, 17543, 18045, 19173, 19651, HM1995-11).

Additions of Dutch map of Crete and Italian map of Corfu are a gift of the Program of Hellenic Studies in 2009 (AM2009-124, 2009-125).

Addition of map of "Lands of Yosemite Valley Lumber Company" is a gift of Barry Lawrence Ruderman in 2009 (AM2010-14).

Addition of map of "Island of St. Croix" was transferred from the Graphic Arts Collection in 2012 (AM2012-46).

Purchase, 2018 (AM 2018-114).

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This collection was processed by John Delaney in March 2009. Finding aid written by John Delaney in March 2009.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Manuscript Maps Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Publisher

Manuscripts Division

Finding aids author

John Delaney

Date

2009

Creator

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Subject

Cartography

People

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount (1861-1936)

Lowe, T. S. C. (Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt) (1832-1913)

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton) (1826-1885)

Place

Mason-Dixon Line -- Maps, Manuscript.

New Jersey -- 18th century -- Maps, Manuscript.

New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Maps, Manuscript.

New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1781 -- Maps, Manuscript.

Corfu Island (Greece) -- 18th century -- Maps

Crete (Greece) -- 19th century -- Maps

Latakia (Syria) -- 20th century -- Maps

Paris Region (France) -- 18th century -- Maps, Manuscript.

Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps

Language

English

Form

Maps -- France -- Paris Region. -- 18th century

Maps -- Greece -- Corfu Island --1730.

Maps -- Greece -- Crete -- 1852

Maps -- New Jersey -- 18th century

Maps -- Syria -- Latakia -- 1915

Manuscript maps