Map of Eastern Kansas | The Newberry

"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by E.B. Whitman & A.D. Searl, in the clerks office of the District Court of Mass."
"L.H. Bradford & Co’s Lith, Boston."
Shows Indian reservations and villages, roads and trails (including the Santa Fe Trail), trading posts, forts, missions, and post offices.
Scale [1:515,815]. "Scale of [25] miles" = 78 mm.
Inset (16 x 16 cm.): Government reservation. The geographical centre of U.S. possessions [in the Fort Riley region].
Three views at bottom (5 x 8 cm. or smaller): Ruins of Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas. Destroyed May 21st 1856 -- Constitution Hall, Topeka, Kansas -- Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas.
Advertising dated June 15, 1856 inside front cover.

Original Collection:

Wright Howes Map Collection (Newberry Library)

Citation

Whitman, Edmund Burke and A.D. Searle, "Map of Eastern Kansas" (Boston : J.P. Jewett and Co., 1856).

Newberry Call Number:

map3C G4200 1856 .W5

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Geographic Area Covered:

Kansas, Kansas--Fort Riley Region

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 map : hand col. ; 68 x 53 cm., folded in cover 16 x 10 cm.

Digital Image Rights Holder:

Newberry Library

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Eastern Kansas and Indian Lands, 1856