Original Vintage Map: 1898 Massachusetts DEDHAM Sheet, aprox 20 X 16\" For Sale

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THIS ITEM IS--from a great collection of early maps, mostly of parts of Massachusetts, but some of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine or New York. i have listed them all separately on , most date to the late 1800\'s, i can ship as many as you purchase for one shipping cost, so check my other items.

LOOK AT THE PHOTOS TO SEE EDGE WEAR, STAINS OR TEARING. as shown, i show many photos and both sides. SO COOL AND HARD TO FIND.

The Office of the Coast Survey (later the U.S. Geodetic Survey), founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin, is the oldest scientific organization in the U.S. Federal Government. Jefferson created the \"Survey of the Coast,\" as it was then called, in response to a need for accurate navigational charts of the new nation\'s coasts and harbors. The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss immigrant and West Point mathematics professor Ferdinand Hassler. Under the direction of Hassler, from 1816 to 1843, the ideological and scientific foundations for the Coast Survey were established. Hassler, and the Coast Survey under him developed a reputation for uncompromising dedication to the principles of accuracy and excellence. Hassler lead the Coast Survey until his death in 1843, at which time Alexander Dallas Bache, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, took the helm. Under the leadership A. D. Bache, the Coast Survey did most of its most important work. During his Superintendence, from 1843 to 1865, Bache was steadfast advocate of American science and navigation and in fact founded the American Academy of Sciences. Bache was succeeded by Benjamin Pierce who ran the Survey from 1867 to 1874. Pierce was in turn succeeded by Carlile Pollock Patterson who was Superintendent from 1874 to 1881. In 1878, under Patterson\'s superintendence, the U.S. Coast Survey was reorganized as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (C & GS or USGS) to accommodate topographic as well as nautical surveys. Today the Coast Survey is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA.

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