Map Collection
"A portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania in America" as surveyed by Thomas Holme, London, [1683].
Manuscript map by Quaker inventor Josiah White (1781-1850) indicating a plan to bring coal from a mine down a slope in the area of Mauch Chunck, PA in the 1840s.
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Haverford’s collections include
approximately 400 maps, originals and reproductions, primarily relating
to Pennsylvania and Philadelphia from the time of the founding of Pennsylvania
by William Penn in 1681 (such as the rare map of Pennsylvania printed in
London in 1681 by Thornton and Seller, and the ca. 1705 edition of the Thomas
Holme’s 1681 survey map of Pennsylvania) through the 20th century,
but also maps as varied as those of Indian reservations, locations of Quaker
Meetings in the United States and abroad, and ecclesiastical divisions of
Europe in the 17th century. |
