1857 U.S.C.S. Map or Chart of Penascola Bay and Harbor, Florida
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Description: This is a rare hand colored 1857 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart of the Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida. Covers Pensacola Bay from The Lagoon eastward past Warrington and Woolsey to Pensacola. Depicts the Islands of Santa Rosa and Fort Pickens as well as the United States Live Oak Plantation. Reveals the area in considerable detail, even inland, including a number of individual buildings in both Warrington and Pensacola, among them, the Redoubt, various lighthouses, the Navy Yard, the Marine Hospital, and the U.S. Military Barracks among others. Numerous depth soundings dot the Bay the Gulf of Mexico beyond.
Prepared under the direction of A.D. Bache for the 1857 issue of the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. The triangulation and topography for this map was accomplished by F. H. Gerdes. The hydrography was completed by various parties under the command of J. K . Duer.
Date: 1857 (dated)
References: None found. Not in Rumsey.
Cartographer: The Office of the Coast 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. Click here for a list of rare maps from the U. S. Coast Survey.
Size: Printed area measures 32 x 26 inches (81.28 x 66.04 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Minor verso repairs and discoloration on original folds. All margins narrow but intact.
Code: Pensacola-uscs-1857 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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