DESCRIPTION: Rare decorative ink manuscript trace map ca. 1910 made by F. Deane Avery (1876 - 1940) of an earlier 1788 [1] map of Erving's Grant, Massachusetts by surveyor Joseph Metcalf in Orange, MA. April 21, 1788 (copied by John ? Pope, Boston, August 11, 1788). The text describing Metcalf's map is in a decorative calligraphic style as might have been used in the late 18th century. The only available true copy of Metcalf's survey of Erving's Grant. [2]
In 1920 Avery, self-described as an "Engineer and Architect", published a short article describing his method of indexing survey artifacts [3]. By 1924 F. Deane Avery was employed as County Engineer in Greenfield, Massachusetts. With Avery's index number "5B-20" at lower right corner.
[1] On February 6, 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and was admitted to the Union.
[2] On the map the land is described as lying in Hampshire County, but today the land lies in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
[3] Avery, F. Deane. "A simple system of indexing notes and plans: Filing by location preferred to other methods- key has numbered areas- loose leaf ledger used". Engineering News-Record. Vol. 85 p. 155.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1910
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Good.
 Top margin is short. Left and right margins grubby from handling. Ink on tracing cloth sometimes erroneously called vellum.
COLORING: Hand color from both recto and verso as was the custom for traces.
ENGRAVER: 
SIZE: 16
" x
10 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 10
PRICE: $1100
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