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Map, including scale and chart of distances, of the circumference of Mackinac Island and of Round Island

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Date:

ca. 1820

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Item ID number:

3028538

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John Jeremiah Bigsby fonds

Map, including scale and chart of distances, of the circumference of Mackinac Island and of Round Island
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Date(s):

ca. 1820

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

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1 Drawing : Pen and ink on wove paper

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The image is from a grangerized volume of Bigsby's 1850 publication The Shoe and Canoe, to which Bigsby has added or inserted drawings, maps and prints as well as many annotations., This work has not been scanned; it is a diagram or map., On a folio inserted between pp. 156-157, there are inscriptions on both rector and verso.

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Artist: Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881

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General note:

Removed from: Publication: In Bigsby, John J., "The shoe and canoe, or, Pictures of travel in the Canadas..., London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, vol. 2, on recto of folio inserted between pp. 144-145.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Inscribed, in pen and ink: Circumference of Mackinac Isle. D. of Round Isl.From a sketch made by Major Long; reduced to the scale of Dr. Bigsby's Map of Lake Huron. [The middle of the diagram has a scale; at the bottomis a chart of distances].
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Ontario

landscape
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Private

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1939-447 PIC
00072
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Material must be examined under the supervision of an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication.

Item no. assigned by LAC [00072] 72

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-447-72
Copyright: Expired

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