Box 03

Abstract The collection of maps comprises a variety of manuscript and printed scientific, transportation, and political maps that were created between 1793 and 1996. These items were collected by the Berea College geology department and campus libraries over the course of many decades. Most maps not associated with the geology department have no specific provenance data. The collection also includes a few manuscript maps and drawings. Items of special interest include older maps (1790s-1830s) and...

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A hand-colored, engraved map of Kentucky. The absence of Laurel, Owsley, Breathitt, Fletcher, Johnson, and Carter counties suggests a pre-1850 printing date. A Berea College Library label on verso provides this provenance information: Accession 299, Class- Kentucky, Book - 5 Mt. Collection, Source: Whittier Mt. Fund.

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1814 map of Kentucky with counties outlined in color from Carey's General Atlas, Improved And Enlarged; Being A Collection Of Maps Of The World And Quarters, Their Principal Empires, Kingdoms, etc. ... Philadelphia: Published By M. Carey. 1814. T.S. Manning, Printer, N.W. Corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Formerly Log 9378.

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Post route map of the states of Kentucky and Tennessee: showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of September, 1901. Large folding map mounted on linen. Mt. Map 686. Ex Libris The Johnson Public Library, Hackensack, New Jersey.

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John Russell, cartographer. From Russell's American Atlas, London, 1795. Mounted on cloth. Accession 349. Condition: fragile (sections separating).

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A Map of the State of Kentucky, Drawn from the Best Authorities. 1793. Published Feby. 1, 1793. by J. Debrett, Piccadilly, London. T. Conder Scuplt. Engraved for Imlay's American Topography. Accession Mt. 316. Mounted mounted on cardboard.

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Two copies of Johnson's [map of] Kentucky and Tennessee published by Johnson and Ward circa 1863. One copy (Mt. Map 293) comprises pages 45-46 of an atlas and includes pages 55 and 56 titled "Historical and Statistical View of the United States." The other copy (Mt. Map 717) comprises pages 49-50 of an atlas and includes pages titled "Historical and Statistical View of the United States of America."

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Five copies of a relief map of Indian Fort (near Berea), Madison County, "Explored and Surveyed by W.G. Burroughs." The maps were printed by the Industrial Arts Department of Berea College. "Kentucky Geological Survey Series VI, 1923."

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This folder contains seven different maps of the Berea College campus that were made in the first half of the twentieth century. Unique among them is a Braille map of the campus.

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A manuscript plat "Map of the Village of Berea" drawn in ink on parchment created around 1880(?). On the reverse of the map is a blank Berea College diploma.