[Map of Pittsburgh, 1817]. 1817.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

[Map of Pittsburgh, 1817]. 1817.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34002553

Shows and names main streets. Letters A-H correspond to key written below map on backing page: Fort Duquesne, Fort Pitt, City Hotel, Bakewell's glass works, O'Hara's brewhouse, shipyard, and "Col. Killbuck's island, a chief of the Six Nations." See Fordham's letter of June 17, 1817 to an unnamed correspondent, p. 18.

1 ms. map ; on sheet 97 x 154 mm.

Newberry Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7352752

Newberry Library

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Newberry Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7hww (person)

The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v4bgx (corporateBody)

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd0vfn (corporateBody)

Fordham, Elias Pym

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qf9tjb (person)

English civil engineer who at age twenty-nine (1817) emigrated to the new Birbeck colony at English Prairie in Edwards County, Illinois. A nephew by marriage to George Flower, a co-founder with Morris Birkbeck of the agricultural settlement, Fordham surveyed colony lands and assisted in the construction of dwellings, mills, etc. He later returned to England and engaged in a successful career as a civil engineer. From the description of Extracts from letters w...