Map Showing Travel and Transportation Routes between the Atlantic Coast and Missouri River of 1750-1825, Printed 1915

Summary

This copy of a map included in author Seymour Dunbar's books, "History of Travel in America," illustrates a number of important trails and wagon roads through the eastern portion of the United States, used between 1750 and 1825. Most of these routes followed trails already blazed by Native Americans for centuries before European arrival in North America.

This copy of a map included in author Seymour Dunbar's books, "History of Travel in America," illustrates a number of important trails and wagon roads through the eastern portion of the United States, used between 1750 and 1825. Most of these routes followed trails already blazed by Native Americans for centuries before European arrival in North America.

Artifact

Print (Visual work)

Date Made

circa 1915

Subject Date

1750-1825

Creators

Unknown

Collection Title

Seymour Dunbar Collection 

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

82.129.775

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Reprographic processes

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 9 in

Width: 11 in

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